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...Olympics. Even the tennis cognoscenti, who easily negotiated the tongue-twister names of the blond, leggy Russians who have come to dominate the tour in recent years, knew little about Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. Today, they have been joined by another pair, Zheng and her fellow Sichuan native Yan Zi, who captured three doubles titles last season. In singles competition, a baby-faced 20-year-old named Peng Shuai last year reached China's highest-ever world ranking, 31, by trouncing top-10 players such as Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva. Peng even made the semi-finals...
INDICTED. ZHAO YAN, 43, New York Times researcher; on charges of revealing state secrets; in Beijing. While the indictment does not refer to a specific story, Zhao was arrested in September 2004, days after a Times report correctly predicted that former President Jiang Zemin was about to step down from his post as head of the military. Zhao, whom the Times has said did not provide the newspaper with state secrets, faces a 10-year prison sentence if convicted...
...pages about sex from the textbooks," says Hu Peicheng, secretary-general of the China Sexology Association in Beijing. With little knowledge of birth control, an increasing number of unmarried women are getting pregnant in a culture in which single motherhood is still taboo. A survey by Shanghai medical researcher Yan Fengting found that 65% of urban women undergoing abortions in 2004 were single, compared with just 25% in 1999. Rates of sexually transmitted diseases are skyrocketing too, with HIV infections growing most quickly among Chinese 15 to 24 years old. Brothels barely disguised as beauty salons crowd the streets...
...problems through the creation of computer programs. One example from this year was quantitatively ranking Supreme Court candidates based on how closely the candidates’ beliefs align with those of President Bush. “Computer science people have their own sense of humor,” said Yan Zhang ’07, one of the three members of the HC^3 squad, nicknamed “Team Ad Hoc.” According to Zhang, the “whimsical and playful” problems reflected this humor. The contest organizers emphasized the breadth of material covered...
...creation of new genders has become a hobby for those on the fringe. Consider Kit Yan, a “gender queer” Hawaiian poet who will be performing tonight at BGLTSA’s invitation. In one poem, after rolling through several dozen “genders”—including appellations like “polyamorous,” “heteroflexible,” and “boydyke”—Yan solemnly declares, “and that’s just the beginning...There may be as many...