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...burnings of suspected witches, than any rational public-health response. More recently, when HIV began its slow burn through the U.S., it was several years before then President Ronald Reagan even mentioned the disease publicly. The appearance of a probable new SARS case in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou late last month reminds us that the story of this disease's emergence, and now possible re-emergence, has also been, in many ways, a triumph of politics...
...funded in over 10 years, so I asked a lot of my friends for help?and nearly 30 of them made cameo appearances." He admits to giving up as much as 97% of his normal fee to take on a project, such as a theater production in Guangzhou. "If it's a good script," he says, "I'll do it for no money." Indeed, despite his pecuniary and professional success, life for Tsang, who doesn't own a yacht or a Ferrari or a wardrobe full of Armani, is definitely not about the bling bling. "I'm already an actor...
...struggle to maintain law and order amid China's increasing freedoms: the incidence of violent crime has risen 73% over the past five years. "Society now has blind spots that have become a heaven for killers," says Ren Jiantao, head of the School of Government at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, who warns that serial killing in Shenzhen, China's migration capital, is "just a few years ahead of everywhere else [on the mainland...
...using a technique developed by Dr. James Grifo at New York University, Dr. Zhuang Guanglun of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou took the patient's fertilized egg, scooped out the chromosome-bearing nuclear material and put it in a donated egg whose nucleus had been removed. In this more benign environment, development proceeded normally, and the woman became pregnant with triplets who carried a mix of her DNA and her husband's--pretty much like any normal baby...
...Sentenced. Gu Tianming, 40, medical-clinic manager; to death, for hiding radioactive material in the ceiling of his business partner's office after a dispute; in Guangzhou, China. State-run media reported that Gu planted iridium 192, taken from an industrial machine, which sickened his partner and 74 clinic staff...