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Breaking this molecular hullabaloo into its elemental physical forces is Carlos Bustamante's specialty. Bustamante, 50, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, came to the U.S. from Peru 26 years ago as a Fulbright scholar. In the early 1990s, while at the University of Oregon, he and his colleagues tacked one end of a DNA molecule to a magnetic bead and measured its elasticity by tugging at the bead with magnets. A stroke of genius, no doubt, but to what end? "We didn't quite know how to answer that question at the time...
...battle between advocates of openness and insularity continues. Consider the case of Beijing-born Li Shaomin, a scholar and U.S. citizen, who was recently convicted of spying for Taiwan and then expelled. His "crime": collecting material that's actually in the public domain but not meant for foreign eyes. And then there's He Qinglian, an economist who is outspoken about the cost of corruption and cronyism but, in China's authoritarian context, qualifies as a dissident. Police broke into her home several times, looking, she believes, for evidence of contact with foreigners to support a phony charge that...
...edgy Internet projects, where image and reality are indistinguishable. During her recovery in Rockford, she has met another Charlotte, the plain-looking teenage daughter of her former best friend. Young Charlotte, alienated from parents and friends, has come under the sway of two men: her uncle, a mentally unstable scholar of the Industrial Revolution, and an enigmatic high school teach whom she seduces. In following these idiosyncratic tales to their eerie convergence, Egan illuminates the difficulties of shaping an inner life in culture obsessed with surfaces...
RELEASED. JOHN TOBIN, 24, American Fulbright scholar convicted in April on drug charges; on parole after six months into his one-year sentence; in Rossosh, Russia. Tobin, once a military-intelligence trainee, was arrested for marijuana possession in Voronezh, where he had been studying Russian political evolution, and later accused of (but never charged with) espionage. According to prison wardens, the foreign student passed the time by playing Ping-Pong, chess and the guitar...
RELEASED. GAO ZHAN, 39, and QIN GUANGGUANG, 45, Chinese scholars with U.S. ties, convicted of spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Gao, a researcher at American University in Washington, and Qin, once a visiting scholar at Stanford, both U.S. residents, were tried, convicted and paroled within three days--in advance of Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit to Beijing. Gao is back in the U.S., but Qin has decided to stay in China...