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Last April, China's Southern Metropolis Daily printed a story about Sun Zhigang, a migrant worker in Guangzhou beaten to death in official custody after being detained by police for not carrying ID. The story touched off a wave of public outrage that reached Beijing: in June, Premier Wen Jiabao led a Cabinet vote that proscribed the detention of migrants simply for straying far from their hometowns. The next morning, the paper editorialized: "This is a milestone in the history of citizens' rights that we should cherish forever...
...Media China's media market has evolved from the days when everyone read the same propaganda broadsheets. Particularly crowded are magazine racks dedicated to fashion and lifestyle. "We need to distinguish ourselves from other magazines, so we use cool covers with a linglei feeling," says Zhang Hua, editor of Guangzhou Modern Magazine. Last month's cover featured a model with metallic eye shadow and lots of attitude...
...four pages of genetic sequences taken from civets and had the letter hand-delivered on Jan. 2. Within hours the Ministry of Health in Beijing passed the letter to the Guangdong Department of Health. Yi's reputation as a virologist was such that the Guangdong government invited him to Guangzhou on Jan. 3 to make his case...
...province's highest health officials. Every person in that room had lived and worked through the first-ever SARS outbreak, and many were clinicians who had watched patients wither, suffocate and die from the disease. Of these physicians, the most powerful was Dr. Zhong Nanshan, 67, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. Famous for having been a physician to China's late leader Deng Xiaoping, Zhong had also pioneered the earliest clinical treatments of SARS, emerging as the doctor most associated with fighting, and eventually defeating, the disease. He is the best-known doctor in the mainland...
...showing you raw data, you have to be careful," said Dr. Xu Ruiheng, deputy director of the Guangdong CDC. "You have to ask yourself, is this real or is this fabricated?" In turn, Yi asked his counterparts if they had the sequences for the human patient now recovering in Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital. They produced their documents. It turned out they had not yet analyzed this virus' phylogenetic origins, the RNA road map that would offer some understanding of how this particular strain would be related to those previously gathered. Yi suggested they send their sequences...