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During a Lunar New Year visit to the hardscrabble mining town of Fuxin in 2003, Wen Jiabao told a group of miners that China's leadership was concerned about the coal industry and the lives of its workers. "At present," the soon-to-be Premier said, "we want to solve the problem of safe coal production...
...Zhao's Progress When former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang died in Beijing last month after more than 15 years under house arrest, the political reforms he had hoped for were still unrealized [Jan. 31]. But Zhao had more success with other goals, including liberalizing the economy and fostering closer ties with the U.S. TIME reported on Zhao's first visit to America 21 years ago in a Jan. 16, 1984, article...
When Corey E. Bernhard ’05 (Economics Concentrator in Cabot House) was in first grade, his mother never imagined that he would come to be one of Harvard’s premier Jazz musicians. “We had a piano in the house, and I would take a hammer and hit the keys with [it].” If he were going to continue to play the piano, his mother declared that he would have to take piano lessons...
...Performance Of The Week AIDS patients in China's Henan province received an unexpected guest during Lunar New Year: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Wen shook hands with HIV-positive villagers, hugged children orphaned by the disease, and urged the local government to do more. A third of the province's residents are HIV-positive; most contracted the virus while giving blood at tainted blood banks in the 1990s. For years, China downplayed its AIDS problem. No longer: Wen is the most senior official to visit Henan's AIDS sufferers...
...spice up the boring winters rowers had to go through off the water. The “Charles River All Star Has-Beens” began training indoors with the invention of the Model A rowing ergometer in 1980. Their idea quickly grew event into the premier world indoor rowing championship that the C.R.A.S.H.-B’s are today. In 1997 the event found its current home at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston...