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...rubber, slung it around her neck. She was about to kiss it when it flicked out its tongue. Says Kim: "She completely freaked out." So have some of Korea's sports doctors, who are appalled at the drills, which they say add to the stress top athletes endure. Says Han Myung Woo, an expert on sports psychology at Sunmoon University: "A month from the competition is not the time to be putting snakes around your body...
...mine shafts are blocked by government inspectors, those still in operation receive less ventilation, increasing the chances of a gas explosion. Despite Beijing's highly publicized campaign, 3,200 miners have died so far this year?more than during the same period last year. "Nothing has really changed," says Han Dongfang, a self-exiled activist who monitors Chinese labor problems from Hong Kong. "Some mines have been closed, but more are always starting up. The deadly cycle hasn't stopped...
Throughout the journey, I was struck by the contrast between the beauty of the landscape and the ugliness of the people. I saw the hatred of the Han Chinese toward the Muslim minorities in western Gansu province. I saw a man being castrated and his house ransacked by a village family-planning brigade, because his wife had just given birth to a second child. Years of political oppression had left the Chinese people hostile and suspicious of outsiders. When I passed through remote villages, peasants would take me for a spy or a hooligan and report me to the police...
...somewhat expensive way to keep an economy crippled. For the most part, Asia's governments and corporate leaders are pinning their hopes on optimistic forecasts of a mild U.S. recovery in the fourth quarter of this year. "We are in a pretty rocky bottom right now," says Han Yung Jung, an economist at the Korea Institute of Finance, an organization funded by big banking interests. How soon things get better "depends on how soon the U.S. economy gets its act together...
...they finished, the family matriarch gave everybody, including her teenage grandkids, small tablets of rat poison: if the police were to grab them, they would commit collective suicide. They then marched into a United Nations office to demand sanctuary. "They preferred death to being taken back," says Moon Guk Han, the businessman who helped them...