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...reason that officials in northeastern China decided not to announce that a 50-mile slick of toxic benzene was headed downriver toward the city of Harbin earlier this month was their fear of damaging tourism and investment in the region, sources tell TIME. Instead, as the potentially lethal spill approached the metropolis of 10 million people, the city said in an online statement that the entire water supply was being shut down for "water main maintenance and repair...
...spill had occurred on Nov. 13 when an explosion at a state-owned chemical factory in the province of Jilin released huge amounts of benzene into the Songhua river. But for the next nine days the government balked at telling citizens of Harbin, in the neighboring province of Heilongjiang, about the approaching pollutants, despite the fact that the river is the source of drinking water for the center of the city. The crucial decision to keep the spill secret was explained to provincial officials by Heilongjiang governor Zhang Zuoji at an internal meeting in Harbin's Peace Village Hotel...
...fact Zhang was never fully in charge: After receiving news of the spill he had contacted the State Council, China's Beijing-based cabinet, seeking instructions, but had received no reply. That apparently put him in a quandary. "On the one hand, people have the right to know. The responsibility of government is to be open and transparent," he said. "On the other hand, investment in Heilongjiang province is at a critical moment. The travel season is nearly upon us, especially the ice festival." Harbin's annual ice festival draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to view massive sculptures carved...
...less dramatic: traffic cones appear on the heads of historic statues; brainless students launch themselves off the famous Magdalene Bridge, surprised when they need an ambulance to haul them out the shallow river; annoying crowds wait in line to enter the town’s few clubs, only to spill out a few hours later and leave their drunken mess on the sidewalk. But even these trivialities draw out the old complaints about the encroaching student population.So, forgive me for thinking that Cambridge-Harvard relations aren’t really a problem. Yes, we strut around like...
...certain things that the university disagrees with,” Glazer said. “The university believes that the budget should be set by the administration. There are certain details we fundamentally disagree about.” Two failed amendments hinted at disagreement within the UC that may spill out in the preliminary vote next week. One proposed amendment attempted to preserve the current size of the council, creating a position of member-at-large to replace representatives who had served on CLC. Another amendment proposed direct elections to CLC instead of an independent SEC. Despite the extended debate...