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...repression of the past, when complainers went to jail and the Communist Party controlled every aspect of life, China can be exhilaratingly free. The Chinese can do virtually anything today, from finding a job to singing karaoke in sparkling brothels to organizing to protect the environment. If you stood on a street corner and cursed the leaders, passersby might think you were nuts, but you might not even be arrested...
...Chen's case has attracted so much mealy-mouthed comment among Australia's political leaders, you wish they would speak less and do more. Not so long ago, it was clear where Australia's leadership stood on such matters. The Australian public is less equivocal. Already there is strong support for Chen's claim for asylum; ordinary people can readily identify a (crazy) brave act and seem grateful for Chen's heads-up based on his allegations of an army of Chinese informants operating in their country. Ambassador Fu Ying offers the idea that Chen is an opportunist...
Indeed, half a decade after Venter and his archrival, Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, stood together at the White House to announce that the human genome had been sequenced, biologists have come to re-evaluate just what that milestone really meant. Back then, it was widely assumed that the emerging science of human genomics would quickly lead to spectacular cures for cancer and other diseases and even allow couples to have "designer" babies with desirable traits plucked from a catalog...
...carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood by her through her battle with breast cancer. He's now 35, an age at which most fast bowlers' bodies have cried, enough. But it's unlikely McGrath will be lowering his rangy frame onto a piano stool anytime soon. To his mind, he has a lot of bowling...
That's where things stood in late November 2002, when the log obtained by TIME begins. At that point, tag teams of interrogators are putting al-Qahtani through a daily routine designed to drain the detainee of his autonomy. They wake him every morning at 4 and sometimes question him until midnight. Each day--and sometimes every hour--is shaped around standard Army interrogation techniques, with code names like Fear Up/Harsh, Pride/Ego Down, the Futility Approach and the Circumstantial Evidence Theme. Each day, the interrogators seem to be trying to find those that work best. They promise better treatment; they...