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...Many infectious diseases that were nearly tamed during Mao's era are now rebounding or, at the very least, the battle against them has stalled. Schistosomiasis is just one example. Diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis B, which could have been curbed by a more public-minded health-care system, are now spreading largely unchecked. China has had a cheap vaccine for hepatitis B available since 1985. But local health bureaus were loath to offer it free of charge, because the vaccine was a crucial source of income. As a result, 10% of Chinese are now carriers of the potentially fatal...
...Half a century ago, Chairman Mao Zedong, himself a native of Hunan province, declared war on the diseases ravaging China's countryside. One of his major battles was against the fearsome Schistosoma fluke, which infected 12 million Chinese in 1949 and, according to the World Health Organization (who), is still the world's second-most-debilitating parasitic disease, after malaria. Employing troops of pesticide-wielding workers to eradicate snails and offering free health checkups and medicine for all those living in the schistosomiasis-prone Yangtze River region, China slashed the number of victims to 2.5 million...
...reed cutter surnamed Song is resigned to the worms invading his body. During the colder months he serves as the plantation's caretaker, living in a makeshift lean-to made of reeds. One of the few ornaments inside his cramped quarters is a portrait of antidisease crusader Chairman Mao. Outside, the ground is littered with the shells of snails whose worms infect workers in warmer weather. Song's drinking and washing water, drawn from a brackish pit by his hut, also teems with Schistosoma worms in the summer. Naturally, Song has been diagnosed with snail fever. He doesn't feel...
...Part of KFC's triumph can be attributed to its first-mover advantage. The company's initial outlet opened in Beijing within sight of Chairman Mao's mausoleum in Tiananmen Square in 1987, a time when many Chinese still wore blue Mao suits and refrigerators were transported by tricycles. There were no fast- food restaurants anywhere on the mainland. (McDonald's debuted in Shenzhen in 1990 and came to Beijing in 1992.) The company made some early missteps: for example, KFC's advertising slogan "finger-lickin' good" was mistranslated into Chinese characters that meant "eat your fingers off." But China...
...days—but not always easy. “The scene with the most takes was the opening one where someone had to throw a small football at John’s face and it hit him at the wrong time or the wrong place,” Mao says. And although it may be like murder she wrote once R. Kelly gets you out them clothes, providing the viewer with that illusion of 6-Angst proved difficult to coordinate. “It took us forever to do the shower scene,” says...