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A Stunning Visualization of China's Air Pollution
When a ranking Chinese government official slammed the U.S. embassy and consulates in China earlier this month for measuring local air pollution data, Chinese web users snapped back. "Can't you see the bad pollution yourself?"
According to a 2007 report produced by the World Bank and Chinese government, up to 400,000 Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution. The concentration of particles in the air that are smaller than 2.5 micrometers, the size at which they can penetrate the lungs, is on average 10 times higher in Beijing than in New York, according to our past three months of data collection.
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Van Gogh, Outsourced
Want to own a Gustav Klimt? You may not have been bidding on the Austrian master's "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," which went to Manhattan's Neue Galerie museum in June for $135 million. However, you can get a reduced-size reproduction for $109 by clicking on OilPaintingsGallery.com or ... Real full story
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Pet doctor Zhan Yaoming often had to hide his dog when he started raising his first pet eight years ago in China. There were dog curfews and regular inspections, called "strike-hards," in Chinese cities, due to popular paranoia about rabies, barking and biting, as well as sanitary concerns. For decades, China had been a pet-hostile society, considered an unnecessary luxury when average Chinese citizens were sweating to improve their own living standards. Read full story
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Google caught flak when it caved in to pressure by China's government censors to filter Web search results. Yahoo , MSN and all of the Chinese search services play ball with censors, too. Despite that and despite the fact that Google discloses when results are filtered and has pointedly declared its reluctance to cooperate, it was branded an amoral collaborator. Real full story
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In June David Li received a call notifying him that he'd won a 1-gigabyte iPod Nano. Li was so happy that he bought fruits and drinks to "share my joy" with employees of China Jifen, who handed him the white, sleek gadget--exactly what he was planning to buy as a gift for his wife. Read full story
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Eric Brewer was made a tenured professor of computer science at UC, Berkeley when he was only 32. He co-wrote the world's most widely used search algorithm, at least before the Google guys got started. And for a little while back in the late 1990s Internet bubble, Brewer was a billionaire. Real full story
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One afternoon last December riders on Beijing's eastbound subway line 1, which runs under Tiananmen Square, noticed some unusual activity on the walls outside their train. An MSN butterfly flapped its colorful wings, drawing outlines of a jacket, a car and a cell phone as the train sped by. The animated ad, meant to depict the trappings of an upper-class lifestyle, ultimately invited well-off Chinese commuters to participate in an online survey so MSN's Chinese Web site could offer them better products and services. From November to January 860,000 people filled out the survey (which was also publicized online and on flyers distributed in famous office buildings). Real full story
Tibet: Plateau in Peril
Over the next 25 years the "roof of the world," where most of Asia's great rivers find their headwaters, could well deliver an ecological crisis to Asia's billions of people. With glaciers melting away faster than anyone predicted, the people of China, South Asia, and Southeast Asia are confronting the prospect of diminished water resources. Full paper
How JPA Health Told the Stories of People Living with Lung Cancer
When you sit down with the talent behind your camera for a meal, you really get to know each other. You start talking about the “little” things in life—that’s when you know you are making friends. ...
... I couldn’t help but relate to her as a parent. I could not imagine how I would feel if I had to break that kind of news to my children, with looming terror that I might not see them grow up. ...Read full story
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