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...explosion at a chemical factory in northeastern China has forced local officials to cut off water supplies to a city of 10 million people. Taps ran dry in Harbin on Tuesday with virtually no advance warning and no indication of how long the shutoff will persist. Panicked residents responded to conflicting government statements with a furious buying spree during which all potable liquid at the city's flagship Wal-Mart sold out in hours. By Tuesday afternoon, homes, hospitals and schools had no running water, and few options...
...have used up all the water left in the pipes," said an administrator at the Harbin No. 1 Hospital who identified himself to TIME only...
...Little Red Book, they praised his party fervor. That reputation gave him the rare chance to attend college, leave the fields and then leave China. "If you go through that," he says, "nothing else is difficult." Well, almost nothing. Dong was introduced to welding as a student at Harbin Institute of Technology in China much against his will. "It was a nightmare," he recalls. Now, as a researcher at Battelle Institute in Columbus, Ohio, he's revolutionizing the field. The current methods for determining the life span, or what engineers call fatigue life, of a welded joint are notoriously imprecise...
...Feng, 37, is a bit of an odd hybrid himself. He grew up in Shanghai, studying the traditional art of calligraphy, while his parents lived in Beijing, where his father served as a high-ranking communist cadre. After attending the prestigious Harbin Institute of Technology (he majored in "the automatic control of intercontinental missiles"), Feng moved to Canada, eventually earning a Ph.D. in math from the University of Toronto. His first business venture back in China, which made him a millionaire at 26, created joint ventures in gold and diamond mining and then sold them through a deal with multibillionaire...
Feng, 37, is a bit of an odd hybrid himself. He grew up in Shanghai, studying the traditional art of calligraphy, while his parents lived in Beijing, where his father served as a high-ranking communist cadre. After attending the prestigious Harbin Institute of Technology (he majored in "the automatic control of intercontinental missiles"), Feng moved to Canada, eventually earning a Ph.D. in math from the University of Toronto. His first business venture back in China, which made him a millionaire at 26, created joint ventures in gold and diamond mining and then sold them through a deal with multibillionaire...