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China's Bangda airport in Tibet is challenging for planes as well as pilots. Tucked between mountain ranges on the Tibetan Plateau, Bangda's runway is the world's highest at 14,000 ft. (4,300 m) above sea level. Because the air is so thin there, the large Boeing and Airbus aircraft that comprise most of China's domestic fleet lack the power and lift to take off and land comfortably under certain conditions, especially in bad weather with a full load of passengers. So in 2002, the Beijing government came up with a surprising solution: China would build...
...millenniums, China hardly touched the mighty Mekong, content to let its raging headwaters flow unimpeded from the Tibetan plateau down through Laos, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. But over the past few years, the emergent superpower has begun turning the world's 12th-longest river into a highway for regional commerce and a source of hydroelectric power. For many Indochinese entrepreneurs, increased China trade and investment has allowed a backward region to participate in their upstream neighbor's remarkable economic expansion. Southeast Asian governments hope China will share the electricity it will harness after a series of massive dams...
...Olympic dream is nothing to celebrate. So the one-year mark before the Games has seen an outpouring of protest as much as of pageantry. On the Great Wall, a massive banner that read ONE WORLD, ONE DREAM, FREE TIBET 2008, was unfurled by half a dozen supporters of Tibetan independence. Outside the Beijing Olympic organizing committee's quarters, officials from Reporters Without Borders called for the release of imprisoned Chinese journalists. As if to dramatize their point, police detained a group of foreign reporters covering the event. Protesting Beijing's support for repressive governments like those of Burma...
...latest effort by China's political adversaries to leverage the games to their advantage. In April, four American advocates of Tibetan independence were detained by Chinese authorities after hoisting a banner on Mt. Everest that parodied the Olympic slogan, reading: "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008." A few days after that, Amnesty International released a report charging that Beijing had rounded up political dissidents in the name of protecting Olympic guests from troublemakers. And Darfur activists got attention for labeling the games the "Genocide Olympics" because Beijing, a primary trading partner and supporter of the Sudan, has blocked...
...book was being shipped, Breashears was nowhere to be found. Having already visited Mount Everest 10 times, he flew back again last month to film a documentary for the PBS series Frontline. Two weeks ago he talked to TIME by satellite hookup from the base camp on the northern, Tibetan face of the mountain, and discussed the making of his film, the creation of his book and the lessons taught by the fatal climb. "We passed some hard nights the last time we were here," he said, "thinking about the nature of the mountain, why we were...