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...make sure I close the door behind me now, as I am going through the swipe.”“I feel pretty safe in my house but the thing I am still weird about is walking back [home at night],” she adds.PeiPei X. Zhang ’08, who last April came in contact with the “dreadlocks man,” who had allegedly trespassed into Cabot House bathrooms, says that nearly a year later, she didn’t think that safety on campus was any different...
...community of gamers in the area.” “In the long term, we’re pushing to get a more official media studies program here at Harvard,” said Decker, who is pursuing a special concentration in Interactive Media Studies. Fan Zhang ’09, who helped organize the event, said, “I think there are a lot people interested in gaming at Harvard, and we wanted to provide a space for people to get together.” “We felt that this was a unique niche...
...survival training, Xiang Xiang soon found he had been dropped off in a very rough neighborhood. In late December, forest wardens spotted him via one of a string of video monitors positioned throughout the park. He had been bitten by a wild panda in a fight for territory, says Zhang Hemin, director of the Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda at Wolong. "Our researchers found him and brought him back. The doctor treated him briefly, then sent him back to the wild." Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach only compounded his problems. In a subsequent encounter...
...There also may be an economic motive. Zoos are eager to donate money to China in exchange for the right to display pandas. In the U.S., four zoos, including the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., are each paying $10 million over a decade for their Wolong-bred bears. But Zhang denies the breeding program is aimed at raising money. He notes that the government restricts the number of overseas groups the Wolong center can supply with animals, adding that any donations are used to expand protected areas and for research. And he insists that reintroducing pandas into the wild will...
...That's the dilemma The First Emperor summons the passion to explore: the uneasy, sometimes fatal relationship between art and government, the composer and the tyrant. You can expect that of Zhang Yimou, who suffered serious censorship restrictions on many of his early films, but who is now in charge of the entertainment for the 2008 summer Olympic games in Beijing. In this sense, even those he has staged it half a world away, The First Emperor is a risky statement, a declaration of war ? a war of nerve ? against the Emperor, the Chairman or the censor...