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...fall of 1991, at the age of 18, Yiyun Li reported to the barren city of Xinyang for a year in the Chinese army. The government had decreed that any student bound for Beijing's Peking University, as Li was, first had to complete a period of military training and political re-education?an ideological vaccine in the wake of Tiananmen. Li had been a high school student in Beijing during the protests, too young to take part herself, but she knew what had happened. That knowledge was dangerous. "Imagine a zipper on your mouth," her mother told Li before...
...lucky?a friendly superior's decision not to report Li's blasphemies saved her from serious trouble. Once out of the army, she heeded her mother's advice and stayed silent. In college, Li worked singlemindedly with the hope of escaping to America, and she finally left China in 1996 to study immunology at the University of Iowa. There, in the American Midwest, Li regained her voice?and discovered it was in English. Despite her initially limited command of the written language, she eventually dropped her plans to become a scientist and earned writing degrees from Iowa's prestigious graduate...
...amazing amount of opportunity has opened up for me. I’m thinking about staying longer in the United States,” Marentis said.The other Harvard-affiliated Soros Fellows are Deema Arafah, Alvaro Bedoya, Amit Bouri, Susie Huang, Paul Kwak, Elizabeth Kwo, Darryl Li, Sze-Ling Ng, Antonio Perez, Yulia Ryzhik, and Colette Shen. The program has 172 alumni and 60 students currently participating...
...flavonol-rich cocoa a day. The Kuna Indians on the islands rarely have high blood pressure, according to Hollenberg, which is not true of those Kuna who move to the mainland and, on average, consume less than four cups a week. —Staff writer Alexander N. Li can be reached at anli@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Xianlin Li can be reached at li3@fas.harvard.edu...