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...trappings of a Cold War - era secret, so she's appropriately mum about the details of its creation. What she will say is that it took help from NASA scientists to shape her medium, a translucent substance called aerogel, into a likeness of a human heart. For the Shanghai-born artist, the absorbent material - used aboard NASA's Stardust probe to trap dust from comet tails - represented a new artistic frontier. Cajoling some from the space agency took years. "I had to show them I was serious," she says...
...greater freedom. Their growing feeling of empowerment is contagious. Last year's protests by thousands of citizens in the coastal city of Xiamen against plans to build a billion-dollar chemical factory ultimately forced the cancellation of the project - and sparked subsequent copycat demonstrations over proposed megaprojects in Shanghai and Chengdu. "The pressure is building in the pressure cooker and there's no current avenue for it to be released," says Nicholas Bequelin, China researcher for New York City - based Human Rights Watch. Bequelin believes there may be "many calls both inside and outside the Party to put some sort...
...you’d follow them into any questionable alleyway, up any set of narrow stairs, and into any dank, faux-Louis-Vuitton-filled room. But on most days, you don’t need to be reminded of the overwhelming pirated-goods market in Shanghai; you need to be convinced that anything here is real.The first week you spend in this former marshland, which was transformed into a financial capital seemingly overnight, can only be described as a sustained shock. This has nothing to do with the pregnant mother trying to sell you Japanese bondage porn (illegal in China...
...freedoms. It's a contagious process. Last year's protests by thousands of citizens in the coastal city of Xiamen against plans to build a billion-dollar chemical factory ultimately forced the cancellation of the project. And the protests directly sparked copycat demonstrations against planned mega-projects in Shanghai as well as Chengdu in Sichuan province, which occurred just a few days before the earthquake devastated the region in May. "Chinese are trying to get government off their backs," says Bequelin. "This has nothing to do with the legitimacy of the Communist Party or debates about political systems...
...press conference shortly after Liu pulled out, Liu's coach Sun Haiping, who has mentored the Shanghai-born athlete since he was a child, dissolved into tears. Dabbing his eyes with a tissue, he described how Liu's hamstring and Achilles tendon had caused excruciating pain and how sports hospital staff had tried intensive massage to heal the injuries. But it was of no use. The throbbing, exacerbated by a training session two days before, was so severe that the hurdler was shivering during rehab treatments. Liu was determined to compete unless the pain was "intolerable," said Feng Shuyong, China...