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...That survival instinct remains. Luo and her family put aside nearly every cent they earn. Her fiancé, Yang Yong, leaves early each morning to find work on reconstruction projects. "Even when he's sick he works," she says. "It will be even harder in the winter, but we have to live, so he goes." Although unemployment is as high as 80% in some areas of the Sichuan disaster zone, Yang says he doesn't have much difficultly finding work. Indeed, the extent of rebuilding still required means he can expect construction jobs for years to come. His 50-year...
...with reporting by Lin Yang / Beichuan
...everything from technical visionary to chief strategist to corporate spokesman and cheerleader to Washington lobbyist to the company's conscience." - Stanford University president John Hennessy, who was a faculty adviser to Yang (Fortune...
...took a tongue-lashing from Congress before these high-tech titans did the right thing and coughed up some concrete assistance for the family of a journalist whom Yahoo! had helped send to jail...What a disgrace." - Former California Congressman Tom Lantos, after Yang appeared before a Congressional committee to discuss why Yahoo! had turned over details of two Chinese journalists' Internet activity to Chinese authorities (San Francisco Chronicle...
...opinion, you might have to get rid of Jerry and part of the board to bring back Microsoft." - Activist Investor and Yahoo! shareholder Carl Icahn, after Yang turned down Microsoft's 2008 buyout offer (New York Times...