Tuesday, August 26, 2003

News

Building Bridges—40 Years After The Dream: Howard University law professor Frank Wu is author of "Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White." He also testified in the University of Michigan affirmative action case that came before the Supreme Court this spring.

Gender Imbalance Becomes Serious Problem in China: More boys than girls are born in China, and the gender ratio imbalance has become so serious that many delegates to the Chinese Women's Ninth National Congress showed great concern over the problem.

The death of China's rivers: China at the dawn of history was much warmer and wetter than it is today, with elephants, rhinoceroses and crocodiles living north of the Yangtze River. Five or six thousand years of cutting forests and draining marshes have changed the climate to the point where the landscape has been devastated. China has the highest ratio of actual to potential desertified land in the world.

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