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Early in Yu Hua's novel Brothers, young Baldy Li sticks his head into a hole in a public toilet and hovers inches above the putrid waste below, all for a glimpse of naked female bottoms on the far side of the partition. For the next 600-plus pages of this satire of modern China, the reader is suspended in similar fashion - curious but teetering dangerously close to the muck...
...Chiva-Som, Hua Hin, Thailand...
...allegations in the post, titled "What Kind of Communist Is Mr. Chen Hua?," could very well be false; there has been no official response. Calls to the Beijing Municipal Government's press office were not answered Friday afternoon...
...publishing also signed, giving Charter 08 more clout than it would carry if it were the work of only politically isolated dissidents. "It seems like a varied bunch, and I think the Internet helped bring these people together," says Joshua Rosenzweig, a Hong Kong-based official with the Dui Hua Foundation, a human-rights group. "It's not simply what many people call dissidents. There are a number of well-known liberal intellectuals and lawyers...
...graduate student who was performing the experiment, Tsing-Hua Her, noticed immediately that something was amiss when he combined the silicon with halogen gas: the silicon had turned black, but the material couldn’t have been burned, since there was no oxygen present in the chamber. Under the microscope, Her and Mazur saw, the surface of the wafers displayed a forest of tiny spikes...