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For China, Three Gorges is just a start: Energy-thirsty China, already involved in the world's largest hydropower project, will block a river in the southwest for a US$2.9 billion power plant.

As China speeds toward prosperity, babies' 'open-crotch pants' face extinction: With a look of intense concentration on his face, 21-month-old Zhang Xueyang explores the playground, ducking under swings and slides as fast as his legs can carry him. His head is shaved. His red-and-yellow T-shirt proclaims "Cute Girl!" His loose, white-cotton shorts are grimy with dirt. Suddenly, he stops in mid-stride and squats, the seam of his pants parting smoothly to allow a stream of urine to pool onto the concrete. "Good boy!" his 25-year-old mother.

Readers share adoption stories from the heart: Our country has 1.6 million adopted children. The story of two of them was told in P-I reporter Courtnay Peifer's recent series about the trip she and her twin sister took to Korea to find their birth family. We asked readers to share her own stories of searching for birth parents, or sons or daughters who were given up for adoption.