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Even before some of the late partygoers arrived home Saturday morning, athletes were taking the field. The Games' first gold was awarded to China's Du Li in the women's 10-m air-rifle competition. The People's Republic followed up Du's feat with another shooting gold, along with a pair of conquests in the men's synchronized platform and women's synchronized springboard diving events...
...foreign-language movie grossing $130 million in North America is likely to have imitators. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon inspired a slew of upmarket Chinese-language action films. Director Zhang Yimou's Hero--retitled Jet Li's Hero for its U.S. release--is the gravest, the most ravishingly beautiful. The best...
...Shangqiu, a boarding school for AIDS orphans (some of whom are HIV-positive), and whisked the students away on a truck. Two volunteers were detained for "causing social disorder." The local health bureau says the school was closed because it never applied for an operating license. But school founder Li Dan says he applied repeatedly. He suspects the school was shuttered because it was getting publicity. "The minds of the local Henan officials are very closed," says Wan Yanhai, a Beijing AIDS activist. "Their first impulse is to suppress information...
...only about 50,000 sufferers. Despite a decree from Premier Wen Jiabao that poor peasants should receive free treatment, a dozen HIV-positive villagers told TIME they had never received any medicine. Last week, 130 Henan peasants congregated in front of a local mayor's office to demand treatment. Li Dan also lodged a formal complaint with the Shangqiu health bureau asking for his orphan school to be reopened, but he's not hopeful. "They told me they didn't need any NGO help," recalls Li. "They said they could take care of the AIDS problem themselves...
...ventilation system. "It doesn't feel stuffy," marvels local resident Tong Tin-Chung, "so you won't get dizzy." And the Sands is offering more than clean air--there are sequined showgirls, megaplex-size TVs and a 300-ft.-long buffet--all designed to reel in mainlanders like Li Duoshan, a businessman from nearby Zhuhai, who once dropped a six-figure sum in one of Macau's VIP baccarat rooms. Li has lost money at the Sands too, but still pooh-poohs its competitors: "There's no music, no shows. Except for gambling, there's nothing else...