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...amyl acetate, an odorous chemical that smells like bananas. When the gerbils correctly identify the odorous porthole by pressing a lever, they are rewarded with a drink of water. That's a big deal for the gerbils, who hail from the deserts of Mongolia. If they make a wrong choice, the portholes slam shut and the gerbils have 30 seconds to ponder their mistakes before the next olfactory assault...
...scenario is chilling. China's ethnic minorities, which occupy some 60% of the nation's territory, want to break away from Peking. The inhabitants of Inner Mongolia yearn to unite with the Mongolian People's Republic and the Turkic peoples of Sinkiang with their cousins in Soviet Central Asia. "An exchange of blows," as the author puts it, "may start at any moment." When that happens, hundreds of thousands of "volunteers" on the Soviet side of the Chinese frontier will "come to the aid of [their] brothers in blood and in faith," and the Soviet authorities will...
...world, including TIME. (One notable exception: London's Daily Telegraph, which until January of this year still quaintly referred to Iran as "Persia"). Readers of newspapers and magazines were being forced to puzzle out such Sinological oddities as Guangzhou (Canton), Xizang (Tibet) and Nei Mong-gol (Inner Mongolia...
Most of China's varied landscape is inhospitable to human life. The three largest border regions (Sinkiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia) that constitute nearly 40% of China's land mass support only 2% of the population. In the west and northwest are immense stretches of desolation, including the sere, uninhabited stretches of desert and the frozen reaches of Tibet. To the north is the wheat and millet zone, a land of brown, eroded hills, broad turbulent rivers, and tens of thousands of dusty mud-walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands...
...average visitor today does not venture far beyond two dozen cities, though the Chinese promise access next year to such regions as Szechwan, Inner Mongolia, even Tibet, all hitherto denied the ordinary voyager. Though the Foreign Friend's days are rigorously ordained -factory, school, temple, tomb, museum, commune, clinic, department store and garden-any early-rising, enterprising F.F. can roam at will, sniffing, savoring, snapping, visiting and, with the help of an interpreter, freely conversing...