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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Fredrik Fan Cheung-fung was born in Hong Kong in 1989. He did not witness the events of that restless summer; he never saw hunger strikes or tanks in the streets. But, he says, he inherited the legacy of the attack on student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that left hundreds, if not thousands, dead. Twenty years after the crackdown, just shy of his 20th birthday, Fan embarked on a 64-hour fast of his own, setting up camp outside a busy shopping center in Hong Kong's Times Square, some 1,240 miles (2,000 km) from Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: While Beijing Stays Silent, Hong Kong Remembers Tiananmen | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

...free market economics, might query his own writings from The Wealth of Nations regarding government intervention in capitalism. When asked by the waiter for his order, the eccentric Smith replies with a knowing smile: perseverance. But it is plausible that the confusion of our economic meltdown would lead to restless nights for the absent-minded professor from Scotland...

Author: By Howard A. Zucker | Title: Banquet for a Better World: | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...giving this big idea a humble setting: the down-and-out glee club of William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. The school's once champion show choir has fallen on hard times, overshadowed by the competitive-cheerleading squad (whose coach is played with Pattonesque swagger by Jane Lynch). Restless Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) volunteers to bring back the chorus of misfits, like Charlie Brown nursing the most pathetic Christmas tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glee: A Chorus of Laughter | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Those restless followers remain the root of the problem. Says Dixit: "What I would hope for is that the integration or rehabilitation of individual combatants may go back to how it was supposed to be - by giving individual soldiers a choice, and inducting those into the army that meet the criteria. Otherwise, it would have weakened Nepal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal's PM Resigns, in New Crisis for Maoists | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...South Delhi. "We have caught them stealing fans from classrooms and even the iron grills from the windows. How do you discipline such kids?" In Sharma's school the teacher-student ratio is 1:63, compared with a recommended ratio of 1:35. (Read "How India's Young and Restless Are Changing Its Politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why India's Teachers Do Not Spare the Rod | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

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