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Today that stay is in its 17th year. Her little facility, now known as the Mae Tao clinic, has grown into a complex of buildings that includes operating rooms, a pediatric and maternity ward, a laboratory, a blood bank, an eye-care facility, a 100-bed hospital and a school. Built around a central courtyard, it feels less like a clinic and more like a de facto town-- one that treats up to 400 patients a day, educates 4,000 migrant children and even issues birth certificates and marriage licenses...
...production, handled by Def Jux guru El-P, alongside other behemoths like DJ Shadow, Blockhead (Aesop Rock’s producer), as well as Cage’s long-time collaborator Camu Tao, snaps with aggressive buzzing thuds and lush melodic loops. El-P, who has a hand in more than half of the songs, opens with one of those rare productions where grinding guitar and a low end courtesy of the bassist from Yo La Tengo, actually work under the voice...
...which run online operations on the mainland. The fast- growing China market is key to their global strategies, and they are loath to antagonize their host nation. Yahoo!'s China operation was widely criticized last month for turning over information to the police that helped send journalist Shi Tao to prison for 10 years (Shi had posted a list of topics that Chinese newspapers were forbidden to cover, including the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre). Yahoo! officials said they had no choice but to abide by the "laws, regulations and customs" of countries where it does business...
...into a lake half the length of California and force 1.5 million people to relocate. Since the dam was conceived as a monument to Communist Party power, opponents were branded as dissidents. Reforms have changed that. "The government sees activist groups as less of a threat now," says Fu Tao, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "With China calling for an environmentally friendly Olympics in 2008, it's even promised to give them a voice...
...office last week the investigation into Zhao Yan, a Beijing researcher for the New York Times who has been held incommunicado since September. Zhao is under investigation for both fraud and leaking state secrets, but his lawyer has not yet seen details of the police reports. In April, Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets to foreign media. (What was leaked and to whom has not been made public?those details are, by definition, state secrets themselves.) And last week, a newspaper run by the China Youth Daily called Bingdian Weekly...