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...text message on my cell phone came just as I was standing in my Shanghai apartment, surrounded by packing boxes and bubble wrap. Preparing to leave for Southeast Asia after more than six years in China, I was feeling nostalgic. China is not an easy place to be a journalist - our phones are often tapped, our sources sometimes harassed - but the economic developments that have transformed this country bring with them an infectious optimism. The lives of people in China, I reflected, really are getting better. The polite packer helping direct traffic in our apartment confided to my husband that...
...Then, came the text message: "Chen Guangcheng has been sentenced to four years and three months' imprisonment." Chen is a legal activist whom I first met a year ago. A native of China's eastern Shandong province, he had come to Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign. Although China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its "one-child policy," the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. Chen's mission seemed...
...think your blog is better than other celebrity blogs? I try to give it a little personality, to inject as much of me into it as I can. I don?t necessarily cater the text toward audiences, but I kind of feel like I?m talking with them. I try to make it very conversational and put in everyday speech. I don?t say "holla" and I don?t say "y?all," but I think it gives it a more familial feel. People feel like they?re reading a friend?s website, and that?s what I try to have...
...first time it manifested physically was in 2000, when I took a Photoshop class with an assignment to create fake ads - I did three. I essentially took three different pictures that I ripped out of magazines of cool urban types, two guys and one girl, and then superimposed text over the middle of the photograph. The words were treehugger, damn hippie and bleeding heart. The point I was getting at is that we have stereotypes about what treehuggers, damn hippies and bleeding hearts should look like. You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about...
...human side of medicine. It's rare to find someone who can express a patient's feelings without resorting to melodrama and at the same time provide a coherent explanation of a disease and its treatment. The communication between doctor and patient would benefit from having a similar text for other conditions. José Emilio Batista, M.D., Ph.D. Barcelona, Spain Field of Dreams Despite the continuing inquest into Zidane's head butting, the problem with Italy's victory is that decisions worth millions are left to an individual who can't always be right: the referee [July 17]. The pitch...