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If you can picture Washington, New York City and the Silicon Valley rolled into one, a city that has hosted the best-ever Olympics, managed severe water and land shortages and built 11 new suburbs, five subway lines and miles of highways, all while preserving its unique history without exhausting...
Performance of the Week Newly crowned fastest man on the planet ASAFA POWELL, 22, broke the 100-m world record in Athens last week with a 9.77-sec. race. Powell, a Jamaican, shaved one-hundredth of a second off the record, becoming only the fourth non-American since 1912 to...
Much of the year, the air in Beijing hangs as thick as egg-drop soup. Even the billboards promoting a "green Olympics" in 2008 are covered in grime. And this ancient city, where a traffic policeman's life expectancy hovers around 40 years, is hardly alone. The World Bank calls...
Jing Cheng, 42, is at the cusp of that effort. Like an increasing number of other Chinese scientists and engineers, the CEO of CapitalBio Corp. has returned from the U.S., where he ran a small biotech company in San Diego, to pursue opportunities at home. An offshoot of Beijing's...
The mere presence of environmentalists marks a sea change. When Beijing approved the massive Three Gorges Dam in 1992, public opposition was nearly impossible. The $24 billion hydropower station at the center of the project, now under construction, will turn the middle of the Yangtze into a lake half the...