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...Harbin incident as further evidence of their newfound willingness to deal openly with challenges such as avian flu. Unfortunately, it is unlikely Beijing will recognize the Harbin disaster for what it really is: a wake-up call signaling that without real reform, they risk hundreds of millions of desperately ill citizens, greater social unrest and, perhaps, the end of the Chinese economic miracle...
...Officials seemed ill-prepared for the event even though the chemical-plant explosion had occurred more than a week earlier, on Nov. 13, some 200 miles upstream on the Songhua River. On Monday, a statement from the Harbin government attributed the surprise cutoff to "water main maintenance and repair." One day later, on Tuesday, a second statement issued on the city's official Web site acknowledged that the explosion had "perhaps polluted the water" in the river...
...colossal force he once was, but like a fading leader who doesn't have the strength left to push through his agenda. The final years of second presidential terms are often troubled. Charles de Gaulle was sidelined by the student revolt of May 1968; François Mitterrand, ill with cancer, lost most of his power during his last two years at the Elysée when Chirac's own party won parliamentary elections. This doesn't mean that Chirac is completely marginalized, of course; he still has great autonomy in foreign and military affairs. But as he contemplates...
What's it like for a teacher's son from Normal, Ill., to deal with the notorious strongmen of Africa? "I've been doing the same thing for 50 years," he says with a shrug. "Just a bigger scale. Same damn thing." Having picked up a degree in geological engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Van Dyke got his start in the dusty fields of Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1951. His mentor, wildcatter S.D. Johnson, taught him the basics: find a farmer with promising land and get him to lease you the rights, then find an oil company willing...
EDWARD CHAN Evanston, Ill...