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Like just about every ambitious engineering student at China's Tsinghua University in the early 1980s, Li Zheng had his heart set on the high-tech, high-profile electronics field--up until the day he bombed on an electronics exam. But his uncharacteristic classroom stumble led Li to a field that could play an even larger role in China's future: energy production. "I think the choice was a very fortunate one in the end," says Li, who studied thermal engineering and in 2000 became a full professor at Tsinghua--China's M.I.T.--at the remarkably young...
...energy means carbon, and China's booming economy puts it on a path to become the world's No. 1 greenhouse-gas emitter as early as 2020. Li knows that China needs clean energy as badly as the developed world needs China to clean up, which is why he joined the Tsinghua-BP Clean Energy Research and Education Center as director when it opened in July 2003. The center's most promising project is a new technology called polygeneration, by which coal is converted into a cleaner gaseous fuel that can both generate electricity and be processed into a petroleum...
...Beijing would likely retaliate. Inside the Communist Party, Hu's leadership is under increasing pressure from party members who are questioning the benefits of the country's integration into the global economy. During the annual National People's Congress, which ended last week, former National Bureau of Statistics director Li Deshui was scathingly critical of government policies that give foreign firms preferential tax treatment in return for investment, and warned against allowing foreign companies to make "malicious acquisitions" until "China's national industries disappear." The China Daily newspaper?the English-language mouthpiece of the Party?later picked up the theme...
...also said that since the threat of a protest prompted the Society to close the event to the public, “the [Law School] community was prohibited from hearing Judge Bybee by a small group of students exercising a heckler’s veto.”Darryl Li ’01, a member of the Alliance for Justice in the Middle East at Harvard—which organized the protest along with Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights—responded strongly to Cooper, saying that “the tortured language of the [Society?...
...costume design team, led by head designer Annie Z. Li ’07, did a phenomenal job of creating an almost-Las Vegas-like glam that effectively brings the rowdy vaudeville scenes of the roaring twenties to life—black wife beaters are paired up with ties and bowler hats, bright showgirl dresses are slashed to display more flesh than fabric, and kimonos flap open to reveal push-up bras and fishnet garters. The lighting design by Hanley perfectly accompanied the mood of the show...