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This lack of flexibility in spite of the looming Olympics is worrying, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "Especially now with the Lhasa protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs, the Muslim ethnic group that speaks a Turkic language, over religious issues were reported by rights groups...
...evolution of cooperation is one of the big topics in evolutionary biology—how cooperation can evolve in spite of the cost of being generous,” said Pat Barclay, a neurobiology professor at Cornell...
...This lack of flexibility in spite of the looming Olympics is worrying, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "Especially now with the Lhasa protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet, where rights groups say there are still sporadic protests despite weeks of virtual military law. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in the far-western Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs...
...point to China's poor record on the environment and human rights. United Future party leader Peter Dunne is boycotting the Beijing signing ceremony in protest at China's crackdown in Tibet, but says abandoning the pact would be "a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face...
...played by David Duchovny on Showtime’s “Californication,” shouldn’t be likeable. He shouldn’t be relatable. And he certainly shouldn’t be the main character of a recently renewed series that—in spite of the writer’s strike—will soon start its sophomore season. While cable television has certainly been home to a host of dysfunctional, even inhuman protagonists, most live life atop unusual and generally unsavory backdrops—notably, morgues, maximum-security prisons...