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...front were trying to save the aircraft, while the other 22 crew members in back were trying to destroy what was inside it. Two Chinese F-8 fighters had been tracking the plane closely, too closely, for 10 minutes. The U.S. flyers even recognized one of the pilots, Wang Wei, a notorious hotdogger who one time flew so close to an American plane that he could be seen holding up his e-mail address on a piece of paper. It was Wang's plane that clipped the EP-3's left wing, slashed one of its four propellers into pieces...
...history of timing the release of prominent prisoners to the political calendar. In 1995, it paved the way for First Lady Hillary Clinton to attend a United Nations conference in Beijing by freeing human rights activist and U.S. citizen Harry Wu. Two years later it freed dissident Wei Jingsheng just as President Clinton prepared his own trip. A last-second release of Li or Gao?or both?could give Washington political cover from the anti-China lobby to make the decisions Beijing wants...
...front were trying to save the aircraft, while the other 22 crew members in back were trying to destroy what was inside it. Two Chinese F-8 fighters had been tracking the plane closely, too closely, for 10 minutes. The U.S. flyers even recognized one of the pilots, Wang Wei, a notorious hotdogger who one time flew so close to an American plane that he could be seen holding up his e-mail address on a piece of paper. It was Wang's plane that clipped the EP-3E's left wing, slashed one of its four propellers into pieces...
...handing out condoms to the girls is unthinkable. But several AIDS-afflicted provinces are moving forcefully. In Yunnan, health authorities teamed up with MEdecins sans Frontieres and other foreign agencies to educate at-risk Chinese about AIDS. "We're hoping they pass the word on to others," says Liu Wei, director of the province's AIDS prevention center...
...York had been painful?for herself and her parents. As a young Chinese activist, she'd been blacklisted for her role in the 1989 student democracy movement in Tiananmen Square. The government had branded her a dangerous troublemaker for working as personal assistant to high-profile dissident, Wei Jingsheng. And she had endured a brutal 30-month term in a re-education through labor camp, then social and professional ostracism upon her release. In 1997 she made the wrenching decision to leave China to seek political asylum in the U.S. Now "after eating so much bitterness," Meng thought, "the family...