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...After being purged by Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution as a capitalist roader and an archrevisionist, Deng rejoined the Chinese leadership in 1972-73 under the auspices of Premier Zhou Enlai. It was just at that time that the U.S. arrived permanently in Beijing with its Liaison Office, headed in 1974 by George Herbert Walker Bush. When these two men met, Deng?the short, tough revolutionary from Sichuan in central China?and Bush?the tall, ambitious and smart ?litist from America's Northeast?the chemistry was immediate. Deng saw Bush as an American who some day would lead...
...successful that the river's fate became a national election issue. When Labor won federal office in 1983 it kept its election promise to stop the project, despite court challenges from the Tasmanian government. "A brown ditch, leech-ridden and unattractive to the majority of people," is how Liberal premier Robin Gray infamously described it then; the wires are the first relic we'll see of his thwarted dream. Gray must never have seen the Irenabyss. The still corridor of water twists between high walls of speckled rock, the roar of the rapids lost behind us. Extraordinarily sharp reflections look...
...city-state's ?lite, as well as hawkers and taxi drivers?gathered last week on the lawns of the stately colonial mansion that houses the offices of Singapore's President and Prime Minister. But despite his reputation for formality, the man taking over as Singapore's new premier, 52-year-old Lee Hsien Loong, repeatedly flashed a broad smile as he strode to the dais to take the oath of office. And that surprising grin kept popping up throughout the swearing...
...share cell samples with other researchers so that they can ascertain just what he's injecting. "Something very interesting may be happening here, but what's needed is independent validation," says Dr. James Guest of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami, the world's premier research center on spinal injuries...
...Case in point: even though international estimates put Henan's HIV patient count at more than 1 million, a provincial health official told a Bangkok AIDS conference last month that there were only about 50,000 sufferers. Despite a decree from Premier Wen Jiabao that poor peasants should receive free treatment, a dozen HIV-positive villagers told TIME they had never received any medicine. Last week, 130 Henan peasants congregated in front of a local mayor's office to demand treatment. Li Dan also lodged a formal complaint with the Shangqiu health bureau asking for his orphan school...