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Standing in Tiananmen Square last week watching the surging crowds of Chinese intoxicated by the idea of democracy, Beijing bureau chief Sandra Burton was reminded of another time and another place. "It looked like Manila in 1986, when the Filipinos flooded the streets demanding the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos," said...
Jia Guangxi is a good example. The son of two physicians, he lived a comfortable middle-class life before arriving at Peking University this year. He was only a halfhearted participant in the original rally on April 16. "I was rather doubtful that it could lead to anything useful," he...
A surging mob, clothed in the nondescript chic of their politics and their youth. Posters of red fists, clinched in defiance. A carnival of long hair and bell bottoms juxtaposed against the strict lines and austere faces of the oil paintings in the Faculty room.
It was only eleven years ago that Louise Brown became the first baby to start life outside a mother's womb. Since then, the business of in-vitro fertilization -- conception in a test tube -- has grown even faster than Louise has. Some 200 IVF clinics have sprung up in the...
Vice President George Bush brandished a newspaper headline calling the Massachusetts budget "a mess" yesterday, as he returned to the offense in the race for the White House. Democratic nominee and underdog Michael S. Dukakis said his Republican rival was "slipping and we're surging" into the homestretch.