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...Official Zhang Kangqi lives in his office. Five feet from his desk sits a single bed, a small table and a television. The focal point of the room is a pencil drawing of the family he lost on May 12. An art student drew it from the ID cards of his wife, Wu Shanshan, 33, and their daughter Zhang Duo, 6. All other photos were lost in the rubble of Beichuan, a mountain town where 15,000 perished. An 8-ft.-tall (2.4 m) fence topped with barbed wire now surrounds the town to keep people out, lest they...
...today Ma and his program are coming under increasing fire. On Oct. 25, hundreds of thousands protested against closer China ties at a Taipei rally organized by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Last week, a Chinese official, Zhang Mingqing, fell to the ground as another mob of angry protesters pushed and shoved around him during his visit to a temple in the city of Tainan. The protesters specifically targeted Zhang, who, as vice-chairman of the Chinese organization responsible for cross-strait relations, was seen as a symbol of China's sway over Taiwan. Meanwhile, Ma has watched...
...research, Zhang and fellow scientists monitored women who drank four or more cups of coffee each day for more than 10 years in order to evaluate the association between the female consumption of caffeine—the world’s most commonly ingested drug—and breast cancer...
...Zhang said that women who consume caffeine need not be worried, as his research so far has been consistent with this finding...
...Overall, the results of this study should be reassuring to women who are concerned about their risk of breast cancer and who also like to drink coffee moderately,” Zhang said...