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...Like most Chinese athletes, the Ping-Pong squad must display a soldierly devotion to their sport. Lights-out is at 10:30 p.m. sharp, and minders are supposed to ensure that there's no bed hopping afterward. "Our players are not normal Chinese people," explains Cai. "They are like soldiers, who must maintain self-discipline in order to do well in competition." In Chinese Ping-Pong, there are no love matches...
...Harvard students are getting better at realizing that mental health problems here are normal,” he says...
...should go without saying, but Wen’s country is not a normal state. Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping famously announced that “to get rich is glorious,” Communist China has embraced a form of market economics, albeit a perverted one. But politically, it remains a Leninist dictatorship, one that routinely threatens a neighboring democracy (Taiwan) with nuclear destruction, harbors visions of regional hegemony in East Asia, brutalizes dissidents, religious minorities and even members of apolitical groups that it deems subversive and, as Howard intimated, maintains a vicious and culturally annihilative occupation of Tibet...
...high note for Harvard. Ranked first in the country, Jantzen won all four of his matches against some of his toughest competition this season and earned the honor of Outstanding Wrestler of the day. This was the first match of the season in which Jantzen went down to his normal class of 149 after wrestling at 157 earlier this season...
Cantley said that under normal circumstances, the development of an FDA-approved drug following the identification of key molecules would take approximately 10 years. But the process might be speeded somewhat in this case, he said, because of the U.S. military’s fear that inhalation anthrax, the most devastating form of the disease, might be used in a biological attack against major cities...