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...China today, with sex workers, men who have sex with men and intravenous drug users - all communities thought to have higher rates of infection than the general population - facing the highest risk. After the new government numbers were released in February, Zhang Beichuan, a researcher at Qingdao University, told the state-run media that the high number of gay men entering into heterosexual marriages is a contributing factor to the increasing spread of HIV. Extra-martial, high-risk sex puts both those men and their wives at risk, according to a study Zhang conducted in 2006, and the enduring discrimination...
...book benefits from Patten's sure familiarity with the places he's writing about, and his asides - the "weak handshake" of a Sri Lankan rebel leader, the taste he shares with Helmut Kohl for the products of Chinese brewer Qingdao -set it apart from more academic works. Part history, part opinionated guidebook, What Next? should hold up for a few years...
...sports because they tend to be underfunded in most other countries. The People's Republic pours millions of dollars into developing everything from female marksmen to women wrestlers. "Chinese girls are willing to work harder and eat more bitterness than the boys," says Dong Jianqing, a judo coach at Qingdao Sports School in eastern China, one of the country's top state-run athletic academies. Dong should know about eating bitterness, the Chinese phrase describing an ability to withstand suffering and deprivation. He mentored several female judoka who went on to win Olympic medals at previous Olympics as well...
...everyone shares his optimism. Nancy Rios, an American windsurfer who was training in Qingdao last week, wrote on her blog Monday that she hoped Qingdao can "come up with a solution for the seaweed overgrowth and clean up the waters. I have my doubts that this will be taken care of, but I will just have to wait...
...Algae-filled waters of Qingdao wouldn't mark the first time that debris-strewn seas have plagued Olympic water sports. Windsurfers complained of seaweed and pollution before the Barcelona Games in 1992. Still, Qingdao's green waters have triggered a massive official response. Gao says the cleaning teams have used boats to pull 100,000 tons of the seaweed from the water. Nets have been extended 40 to 50 miles into the ocean to contain the inflow, and four helicopters have been dispatched to direct clean-up boats. At the environmental monitoring center, employees have been working around the clock...