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...su-feng knows she was one of the lucky ones. "My husband thought we were washed away," says Wu, a pregnant preschool teacher, sitting in a shelter for typhoon victims in the small town of Cishan in southern Taiwan. When Typhoon Morakot struck the island on Aug. 8, bringing nearly 9 ft. (around 2.5 m) of rain and the island's worst floods in over 50 years, Wu grabbed her 1-year-old son and climbed three hours to higher ground. There, she and hundreds of people from her village waited three stormy days and nights before military helicopters rescued...
...Palin's series of disastrous interviews with CBS' Katie Couric was "one of the worst performances ever" by a national political candidate (Balz and Johnson report that Palin put off preparing for the interview, oddly, to focus on completing a written questionnaire for a small Alaska newspaper, the Mat-su Valley Frontiersman). The Alaska governor touched off such turmoil and animosity within the campaign that, when it came to judging the varied allegations against her, the authors found that "determining the truth was impossible...
...favorite pastime for every adult man I encounter to chastise me about finding Equatorial Guinean girls to help make my time here more “justified,” as they say. (Literally, “Hay que buscar una mujer guineana para justificar su viaje.”) While these comments can be laughed off casually the first four or five hundred times, after a while it really gets obnoxious. These incessant “jokes” reflect a culture towards women here that is far from desirable, at least from my Western perspective...
...Su suffered a concussion and a broken finger. She was taken to the hospital by officers from the local chengguan, or city-management bureau. The officers told Su that the men in the van were working for their department, a law-enforcement agency that is responsible for controlling street vendors, hawkers, shoe shiners and illegal cabs. While they wield less power than the police, they have become notorious for violence. Hardly a week goes by during which at least a beating by chengguan officers isn't reported in some Chinese city. (See pictures of life on the fringes of society...
...Beijing chengguan's media office wrote in a reply to TIME, adding that in recent years their officers have improved law enforcement and responded to the public's demands. The media office acknowledged the existence of the controversial manual but said its methods were not used. As for Su, the chengguan said she disturbed social order and prevented the officers from carrying out their duties, leading to a 15-day detention...