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...LAID TO REST. SUN ZHIGANG, migrant graphic designer whose beating death in March by fellow inmates and attendants in a vagrants detention center in Shenzhen led to the reform of China's strict residency laws; in his hometown of Huanggang, Hubei province, China. Although Sun had the requisite residency papers for Shenzhen, the 27-year-old wasn't carrying them when he was stopped by police for a random check. His death created an uproar in China, and in June, President Hu Jintao signed an executive order forbidding police from detaining migrants simply for lacking the proper identification...
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What about that other long-promised alternative-energy source, solar power? Technology Pioneer Nanosys of Palo Alto, Calif., thinks solar's day in the sun has finally arrived. The firm is developing tiny photovoltaic cells that can be incorporated into the fabric of roofing materials to provide power to homes and other types of buildings. Nanosys is combining the science of solar cells with the science of nanotechnology, which manipulates items as small as an atom to do everything from switching electricity to storing data to sensing the movement of a bridge that is beginning to weaken. Thanks to this...
...talks in Washington this week aimed at choosing the site for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world's biggest and most ambitious fusion-energy project. Wearing the E.U.'s colors, Cadarache is competing against a Japanese team to host a plant that will attempt to replicate the sun's own energy, fusing hydrogen into helium to exploit a limitless and clean source of power. But locals are not looking as far as the stars: the ITER would inject some €10 billion into the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region over its 30-year life span...
...films?he's been in nearly 150?has made him a fixture on cable systems throughout Asia, is synonymous with lowbrow high jinks and slapstick physicality. Yet here he is, feet planted defiantly on a Kowloon street, ignoring an imprecating photographer who is losing a race with the setting sun to snap a natural-light portrait. Tsang's full-moon of a face, which is seen onscreen usually deployed in an overwrought double take or wide-eyed surprise, is now reddening as he barks in Cantonese into his cell phone. Even Tsang's assistant, shaking her head in fear, refuses...