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...from attending prayers at mosques. Historic districts in storied Silk Road cities like Kashgar and Khotan are being torn down and replaced with drab housing blocks. "In the face of China's modernity project," says Sakamaki, "Uighur culture is being diluted more and more." (Read "Why the Uighurs Feel Left Out of China's Boom...
...Marooned in such an isolated place, they had no idea that tragedy extended far beyond their own community. Learning that thousands probably perished in the quake, Dullah hugged his remaining child in his arms. "Compared to many people, I am lucky," he told me. "At least I have someone left." And somehow, in the flickering light of a dying candle, with his village turned into a mass grave just feet away, Dullah managed a small smile...
...cell phone and flooded the market with it at a lower price. "It destroyed the Razr brand," says the author. "Consumers who once considered the Razr the high-fidelity phone now saw it as the cheap phone you get when signing a wireless contract." One consequence: Motorola's CEO left under a cloud...
...just read the Afghan election law and discovered that they had no authority to throw out fraudulent votes. This novel and inventive reading of the law did not convince many Afghans. My boss, however, sided with Karzai, and I was ordered to drop the matter. Four days later, I left Afghanistan and was subsequently relieved of my position by the Secretary-General. (See TIME's audio slideshow "The War in Afghanistan Up Close...
...could have foretold one son's ending: "He was dead by the time he was found by the stretcher-bearers, so they took his identity-tag, and looked in his bloody pockets for letters or photos - there was a publicity photograph of Olive, looking wise and gentle. Then they left...