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...country's most prosperous province, is a major transit hub through which millions of migrants would have to pass on their homeward journey. Road and rail outages have left as many as half a million stranded here. The main rail link between Guangzhou and Beijing was disabled when heavy snow and ice in Hunan province knocked out power lines last weekend, leaving at least 136 trains stranded, according to Xinhua. Several highways north out of Guangzhou were also closed...
...chance encounter with Edgar Snow's sweeping account of the Chinese revolution, Red Star Over China, had given Sinclair a pent-up curiosity about Chinese culture since his boyhood, and from the moment of his arrival as a 25-year-old he became an assiduous student of it. He openly despised the kind of expatriates who "seldom meet a normal Hongkonger" and instead sided with and befriended Chinese at the grass-roots level. For the next 40 years, his work and life were peopled with laborers, police constables and villagers of Hong Kong's rural New Territories region, which...
Neither rain, nor snow nor sleet from a huge storm the night before could dampen the militancy of the aging all-stars of 60 years of Arab conflict with Israel gathered at a trade union resort hotel outside Damascus on Wednesday. It was the biggest gathering of radical Palestinian factions since the signing of the Oslo Peace Accord in 1993, with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command attending along with the Lebanese Hizballah organization - an all-star cast of organizations branded as terrorist...
...With melted snow dripping into the conference hall, decorated in burlap sacking to evoke the inside of a bedouin tent, the setting could hardly have born less resemblence to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, scene of the U.S. sponsored Middle East peace conference last November. That, of course, was the point...
...love affair with mountains began at age 16, when, on a school excursion, Hillary sighted Mount Ruapehu, a 2,797-m active volcano. "There was snow everywhere," he recalled over 50 years later. "It was a bright moonlit night, a brilliant, marvelous sight to me." Hillary dropped out of law school to work with his father, a beekeeper. But he skied whenever he could, hiked in the hills, and steadily improved his climbing skills...