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On an innocent afternoon in Kumbum Monastery, we choked down yak cheese and learned about Paradise.
By Shanti Menon
January 14, 2000
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A night at the official Communist Party hotel in China leads to everything but a good night's sleep.
By Jeffrey Tayler
December 30, 1999
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Saddam Hussein must decide whether to accept the U.N.'s latest arms-inspection deal, which could end sanctions against his country.
By Ian Williams
December 21, 1999
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China's assumption of control over Macau on Sunday writes the final verse in the epic of European colonization in Asia.
By Morris Dye
December 18, 1999
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Six merchants were put to death last week for selling poor women to northern Chinese farmers.
By Hank Hyena
December 9, 1999
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As anti-globalization protesters ask themselves, "Where do we go from here?" Seattle enters the lexicon of civil disobedience.
By Bruce Shapiro
December 8, 1999
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An American creative writing teacher in China torches his students' work in the tub rather than hand it over to "the leaders." Was it piety, or the fantasy of a heroic reception back home?
By Tom Bradley
November 29, 1999
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As parents coordinate their babies' sexes ahead of time, the male-female ratio gets even more skewed.
By Hank Hyena
November 18, 1999
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In a nondescript rural restaurant, an expat is humbled by a local's worldly honesty.
By Paolo Bacigalupi
November 17, 1999
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Reform Party hopeful Buchanan's mix of barbs and bombast finds a ready audience down in Clinton country.
By Suzi Parker
November 17, 1999
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Will China's entry into the World Trade Organization soften labor support for Al Gore's presidential bid?
By David Moberg
November 16, 1999
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The "other woman" should dump that loser! Plus: Brill's Content editor questions Salon angle; e-commerce today, gone tomorrow?
Letters to the Editor
November 11, 1999
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In his first dispatch from an epic Beijing-St. Petersburg train trip, our
correspondent explores the mysteries of Mongolia.
By Rolf Potts
November 9, 1999
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The extraordinarily scenic and untouristed area of Mustang is about to have its figurative throat slit -- by a greedy highway project.
By Jeff Greenwald
November 6, 1999
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At last, coverage of women's sports that even this non-spectator can appreciate. Plus: One writer's plaintive cry: "Enough with the sex, dammit!"
By Jenn Shreve
November 5, 1999
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Angry old ladies are stepping forward to testify about the horrors of their years as Japanese "comfort women."
By Hank Hyena
November 1, 1999
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The rugged inhabitants of this starkly beautiful, isolated land are now preparing for the latest invader: Winter.
By Steve Van Beek
October 26, 1999
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Post boom-boom gloom. The heartbreak of taco theft -- what's next, kidnapping chimichangas? Plus: A helicopter you can park in your nostril.
By Douglas Cruickshank
October 9, 1999
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What the religious leader who made China tremble has to say for himself.
By Mark Wallace
September 8, 1999
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Nothing is simple in Tibet.
By Hank Hyena
August 7, 1999
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More music is pirated than paid for in China, says an upstart music label. It's asking listeners to pledge allegiance to artists.
By Janelle Brown
August 2, 1999
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Is the Falun Gong sect a real threat to the regime or simply a phantom menace?
By Orville Schell
July 27, 1999
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When the oppressed recognize their suffering, they find the strength to overthrow those in power, reports Beijing's China Youth Daily.
By Andrew Leonard
July 6, 1999
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The worst national security disaster in history came about because President Clinton had loyalties not to foreign communists, but to the Chinese funders who got him elected.
By David Horowitz
June 21, 1999
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The recent eruption of anti-Americanism in China reflects a deep-seated historical identity as "victim" that is holding back its emergence as a major power.
By Orville Schell
June 8, 1999
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