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...WUHAN, CHINA Parent sleepover on first day of college...
...According to Wang Ding, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology and a leading expert on the baiji, damming on the river and noise from heavy boat traffic may have disoriented the dolphins, which are mostly blind and search for food in the sandy shallows using sonar. The confused and starving animals may then have wandered into boat propellers. Heavy dredging in shipping channels could also have made it harder for the animals to locate each other and hunt for increasingly scarce fish. "Dredging is a very serious problem," Wang says. "It destroys spawning grounds of fish. There...
...pace. It has a booming economy, escalating incomes and 10.8 million people--more than New York City. Wooing the newly wealthy of Chengdu is a top priority for consumer companies from Coca-Cola to General Motors to Christian Dior. Chengdu is only one of several mammoth metropolises--like Chongqing, Wuhan and Xi'an--experiencing similar booms of investment, wages and jobs...
...infectious-disease specialist at Wuhan University, immediately informed provincial health authorities that AIDS had somehow broken out of the usual high-risk groups--homosexual men, intravenous-drug users and commercial-sex workers--and infiltrated the general population. But the mystery remained: How had this "foreigner's disease" come to infect poor rice farmers who scrape by on 2,000 yuan ($250) a year and rarely leave their village...
...clinic at Wuhan University is now recognized as a national training center for AIDS doctors and has pioneered in China use of a three-drug combination therapy for HIV-positive pregnant women and pediatric formulations of AIDS drugs for children. With medicine donated by the Clinton Foundation, Gui will offer treatment without charge to 200 infected infants over the next few years. Those children will be Gui's legacy, living reminders of the doctor's bravery and dedication. "The road ahead is still very long," he says. But thanks to Gui, China has taken the important first steps...