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...chance encounter with Edgar Snow's sweeping account of the Chinese revolution, Red Star Over China, had given Sinclair a pent-up curiosity about Chinese culture since his boyhood, and from the moment of his arrival as a 25-year-old he became an assiduous student of it. He openly despised the kind of expatriates who "seldom meet a normal Hongkonger" and instead sided with and befriended Chinese at the grass-roots level. For the next 40 years, his work and life were peopled with laborers, police constables and villagers of Hong Kong's rural New Territories region, which...
...Zhou, it was a moment of revelation. He decided that, as a single, jobless Chinese citizen who "firmly believes in individual freedom," he was perfectly suited to devoting himself to "helping evicted and displaced persons." He also cheerfully declared his aim of "hyping" his way to fame so he would "never go back to selling vegetables." Traveling on a shoestring budget and relying on donations from admirers and the people to whose aid he came, Zhou preached the digital gospel, educating his pupils in the arts of establishing a blog, posting, taking digital photos and videos, using instant-messaging tools...
Faeza knows she's incredibly lucky to have a new life at all. Though security in Iraq has improved considerably in recent months, it's a safe bet that most Iraqis would willingly switch places with her. "Life is difficult here," says Faeza. "But there, in one moment...
...with helping resettle Iraqis in the U.S. (By contrast, Sweden has taken in some 31,300 asylum seekers since March 2003.) Charles Shipman, who runs refugee programs for the state of Arizona, says growing U.S. cities like Phoenix can handle more Iraqi refugees than are coming in at the moment. Housing in Phoenix is relatively inexpensive, says Shipman, and the local job market can still absorb entry-level workers. Of the 600 refugees who pass annually through the IRC's Phoenix program, 91% find jobs and go off state and federal subsidies within five months of arrival...
...likely to work. For another, we're supposed to encourage people who feel doomed to share it in words and know that others can relate. The law can take care of their actions, and in Winehouse's case, it already has: she's likely to miss her Grammy moment because of the visa issues that go along with being a danger to yourself. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't root...