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When the tide goes out, the rocks are revealed: media barons claim that the foreign press can help bring democracy to China. Yuezhi Zhao tracks the paper As I flicked through my local paper--The Vancouver Sun--on an October morning in 2002, a headline jumped out to grab my attention. 'Playboy's Interest ......(Continue Reading) Falls of justice: what happens when a biographer attacks his subjectand gets his facts wrong? - book review WILD BILL: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas by Bruce Allen Murphy Random House, $35.00 TODAY, IT SEEMS, NO ONE MAY occupy high office without ......(Continue Reading)Ancient China - Cyberhunt Activities Bring some of the history and accomplishments of this extraordinary culture into your classroom with these Internet-based activities, suitable for middle- ......(Continue Reading)Taming the river dragon: can China's Three Gorges Dam harness the Yangtze River? - Special Report HOW DO YOU TAME A DRAGON? If the dragon is China's powerful, dangerous, and unpredictable Yangtze (YANG-TSEE) River, you can try to tame it by building ......(Continue Reading)Great Wall of China -- Harry & Teddy by Thomas Griffith, The Over the past half-century, the United States suffered its most costly foreign policy setbacks in Vietnam and earlier in China, and in both episodes journalists ......(Continue Reading)
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