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...police insisted it was a model bust. They'd stopped a taxi on its way into the industrial city of Lanzhou on the fringe of the Gobi Desert. While some officers pointed their guns at driver Jing Aiguo's temple, others retrieved from the back seat of the car nine plastic sacks containing three kilos of heroin. Jing had never run afoul of the law before, but the police?then engaged in one of China's periodic "Strike Hard" crime crackdowns?quickly obtained his confession. After a one-hour trial, the judge announced his sentence: death...
...UNVEILED. "DANCING BEIJING," the 2008 Beijing Olympics symbol, which is an anthropomorphic Chinese character jing, in midstride; in Beijing...
...troupe’s music comes from only four instruments: the kwaenggari (the lead instrument, small and loud), the janggo (hourglass-shaped, with ornamental sticks on either side), the buk (a big round drum that provides the bass beat) and the jing (a gong that, Ahn says, “rounds out the beats with a deeper, darker sound?...
...with an auspicious sign, they had to get amorous fast. Some expectant mothers are asking doctors to induce labor to help them avoid the curse. As we went to press, frazzled maternity workers were bracing for one last big push. "Come Friday, we'll be much freer," says Liu Jing, deputy chief of obstetrics at Beijing's Medical University Maternity Hospital. The Year of the Sheep may be unlucky for some, but for Chinese obstetricians it'll be perfect for a holiday...
...overstated, the risk is still almost double that for unrelated couples. Denizens of the incest villages see ample evidence of this. Near the city of Yan'an, a brother and sister squat in the mud-brick slums, signing a secret language to each other: both Cao Shuai and Cao Jing were born deaf, to parents who are first cousins. This spring in Yan'an county, a severely retarded newborn girl was found abandoned beside a road. Authorities tracked down her parents, only to find that they were brother and sister...