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...deaths?as well as more than 600 illnesses linked in Japan to Chinese diet pills?have alerted health authorities to a hazard they have been almost powerless to stop. Similar drugs were implicated in deaths in China last year, with scores more falling ill in Korea and Hong Kong. Japan last month banned 24 types of Chinese diet drugs?many containing N-nitroso fenfluramine?and rushed through new laws placing the burden on importers to prove product safety or face a fine of up to $26,000. Just last week, health officials in China published a ban on 13 diet...
...several years the government has staged periodic cybercafe raids, usually on the ground that online pornography and violent computer games pose a moral hazard to the nation's youth. But such concerns are only a small part of the campaign to shut down what is, for many Chinese, the main artery to the Internet. What worries control-crazy officials is the Internet's tangle of unmanageable links, which give Chinese uncensored access to "reactionary" news and information sites. Since 2000, the number of Net users in China has quadrupled, to 38.5 million; by 2005 China is set to overtake...
...government has for several years staged periodic cybercaf? raids, usually on the grounds that online pornography and violent, addictive computer games are a moral hazard to the nation's youth. But psychological and safety considerations are only a small part of the campaign to shut down what is, for many Chinese, the main artery to the Internet. Control-crazy officials are struggling to monitor an information-packed online world that by its very name, the Web, is a tangle of unmanageable links to "cultural pollution." Since 2000, the number of Internet users in China has quadrupled to 38.5 million...
Cranks are an occupational hazard that every scientist eventually faces. Fortunately, these characters are usually easy to spot. If someone claims to have a grand theory that overturns centuries of scientific knowledge--especially when the theory spans unrelated fields like physics and biology and economics--the odds are good that he or she is a crank. If the author publishes not in a standard scientific journal but in a book for general readers, watch out. And if the book is issued by the author rather than a conventional publisher, the case is pretty much airtight...
...land mines on the high cliffs above the colossal Buddhas, and rain and erosion have brought hundreds of these deadly devices tumbling into the valley. Dozens of Afghan de-mining experts are combing the slopes with their metal detectors, trying to avert more casualties. The mines are a particular hazard to the families of Hazara refugees whose villages were razed by the Taliban and who now shelter in the honeycomb of cliff caves once used by meditating Buddhist hermits...