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Last week, American politicians had ample reason to be angry at China. On Sunday, more than 600 police and paramilitaries descended upon unarmed peasants in southern China, opened fire and killed two farmers and wounded at least 18 others. The farmers had gathered peacefully to protest city and township corruption. Then, on Wednesday, a Beijing factory worker named Chi Shouzhu was arrested as a pro-democracy “counter-revolutionary.” He will be imprisoned not for inciting pro-democracy demonstrations—not even for promoting democracy—but for printing out information from...
...gets much worse. When township officials apprehended 30 year old Zhou Jiangxiong in May 1998, they hung him upside down, repeatedly whipped and beat him with wooden clubs, burned him with cigarette butts, branded him with soldering irons and ripped his genitals off. What did this man do to deserve such a heinous punishment? According to Amnesty International, he was tortured to death because the officials were trying to make him reveal the whereabouts of his wife, whom they “suspected of being pregnant without permission...
...read "July's People" quite a few years ago, and I recall it as a story of a longtime domestic servant named July who rescues a white family from a kind of racial Armageddon by sheltering them in his own township world. Gordimer is a fine writer, but I'm afraid the committee's description of the book as an "anachronism" is on the mark. July amazes the complacent, well-to-do white family - and by implication the complacent well-to-do white reader - with his kindness, resourcefulness and wisdom. In other words, he's the classic "noble savage...
...pronounced "dead," the cool-down immediately begins with application of ice to your head and body. At this point the powerful anticoagulent heparin is injected to prevent massive blood clots from making you even deader. Then your clammy corpse is transported to the CI facility in Clinton Township, MI, where your blood is replaced with increasing concentrations of, um, antifreeze. After washing out blood and "perfusing" with "cryoprotectant" the "dead" body is lowered to liquid nitrogen temperature over the course of two weeks to avoid macroscopic and microscopic cracks that occur if patients are cooled too quickly (I would hate...
...scenes reminiscent of apartheid-era confrontations between security forces and black township residents, police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades at a mob of protesting squatters in Alexandra township as local council officials moved in to remove them. The eviction order on 3,500 families living along the Jukskei River that runs through Alexandra came after squatter shacks were washed away by floodwaters and the river was found to be contaminated with cholera. The government is trying to curb a cholera outbreak that has already resulted in some 18,000 infections and more than 70 deaths...