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...Liaoyang and Daqing provide the most dramatic examples of organizing, workers in Zhengzhou over the past two years built a network of activists that succeeded, for a while, in resisting factory closures with the risky tactic of physically occupying their plants. A man who goes by the pseudonym Wang Ren is one of the leaders. Now in his 50s with ample girth and a wide-open face, he could have stepped out of a 1960s propaganda poster. For three decades he labored at the Power Generation Equipment Plant, a money-losing factory with half-century-old machinery, that...
...growing up in Hong Kong's rural Sheung Shui, Lau, the son of chicken farmers, hardly played with toy figures. "We were too poor," he says. (Today he has 30 boxes full of G.I. Joe, Ren and Stimpy, Playmobil and The Simpsons dolls in storage.) An artistic streak led him to design college, then to a stint as a struggling painter and part-time window-display designer for a department store. Lau got into 3-D art by accident. "The big change in my career was in 1997, when my friends in a band called Anodize asked...
After Chirac's candidacy announcement, polls showed his prospects improving despite doubts over his honesty. "If the President of the United States were found to have been dishonest, it would be irreparable," says René Rémond, president of the National Foundation of Political Science. "But our Latin tradition is more indulgent. I don't think voters will pay much attention to these corruption scandals." However astonishing that may sound, France is a notoriously cynical place. When the second-round election results are declared on May 6, they won't just name the country's new President - they...
...Ren Wanding was in prison the last time Beijing made a bid for the Olympic Games. That was 1993, and he was serving seven years for supporting the 1989 student demonstrations that ended in the disastrous Tiananmen Square massacre. There was no way he could support the bid, Ren recalls. The Olympic torch would cast a flicker of legitimacy over the Communist Party. Released five years ago, Ren can now crusade against Beijing's current attempt to be host to the 2008 Summer Games. But he isn't, and not because he's afraid. Instead he is hopeful that...
...Lily Renée's 1946 cover for 'Fight Comics...