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...guardians of China's last free-flowing rivers unveiled a memorial to a fallen comrade, an activist who had died of a heart attack in January. But their mission had another motive. Following the ceremony, they traveled into remote regions of Yunnan province to gauge opposition to a spate of new dam projects and offer assistance to vulnerable peasants trying to stop them from being built. This wasn't a secret trip. Plainclothes police videotaped everything. Undeterred, the outsiders met with peasants in the prosperous village of Chezhou and found many unwilling to sacrifice their homes to the waters behind...
...assailant, who was never identified, struck the victim from behind with a blunt object and attempted to rape her, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). This was the most serious incident in a spate of more than a dozen indecent assaults against Harvard students reported near the Square between fall 2003 and fall...
...record and a 9-5 mark in Ivy play, good enough for third place. The hope and promise of spring gave way to the doubts and mixed results of a long season, as the Crimson’s young pitching staff alternately impressed and disappointed, while an improbable spate of injuries dented the roster, leaving the resilient squad to endure and forage for victories...
...International Committee of the Red Cross broke its customary public silence in October 2003, pushed to do so, it said, by a spate of suicide attempts. "One cannot keep these detainees in this pattern, this situation, indefinitely," a senior official said. By then, the official number of suicide attempts was 32, though I knew it was actually far higher. The military kept the number low by labeling most attempted suicides as "manipulative self-injurious behavior" or "self-harm" incidents, a practice that became more frequent as time went on. In January 2005, the Pentagon disclosed that 350 "self-harm" incidents...
...years ago, such a vote would have seemed unnecessary. Economic recessions came and went, prices continually climbed, but Americans always kept buying more and more cigarettes. Today, though, while the $18 billion tobacco industry remains very profitable, the element of predictability is gone. The industry is facing a spate of product-liability suits and, for the first time in its history, a period of declining consumption. Unit sales peaked in 1981, when Americans puffed on 640 billion cigarettes. By the end of this year, consumption is expected to be down 7% from that level...