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Geotimes September 2006 Carolyn Gramling	China's Massive Dam Alters Weather China's Three Gorges Dam is famed for its size -- and its reservoir may be large enough to change regional weather patterns.
CFO August 1, 2006 Wu Chen	View from China In the rush to gain a foothold in a market of 1.3 billion people, multinationals are pursuing mergers and acquisitions in China more religiously than ever. But the social tension that simmers beneath the rich/poor divide in China is now spilling over into foreign acquisitions.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 William Sweet	Yangtze's Power Is Unleashed The last cofferdam -- a temporary structure standing between the waters of the Yangtze River and the main wall of the Three Gorges Dam -- was recently blown up. Three Gorges has likely been the most controversial damn project ever.
Geotimes July 2006 Fred Schwab	Eating Dog and Breathing Hard: China, 2006 After visiting the country, the author concludes that the Chinese know that the indiscriminate spewing of waste into air and water and voracious burning of fossil fuels cannot continue.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	China: Hot and Getting Hotter Remember that red-hot Chinese economy? It's smoking even more these days. A country 1.3 billion residents strong continues to gallop to higher ground.
Fast Company July 2006 Tonya Garcia	Underground Movement Will subway ads make a difference in China?
Geotimes June 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Confirming a Chinese Earthquake Prediction Now, after gaining access to formerly classified Chinese documents and key people involved with the 1975 earthquake prediction process, a team of scientists has reconstructed this important event and concluded that earthquake prediction, though challenging, is not impossible.
BusinessWeek May 29, 2006 Bruce Einhorn	Science Friction Is the controversy over research fraud in China spiraling out of control?
BusinessWeek May 22, 2006 Bruce Einhorn	The Hunt For Chinese Talent Guanxi (The Art of Relationships) Microsoft, China, and Bill Gates's Plan to Win the Road Ahead by Robert Buderi and Gregory T. Huang argues that Microsoft's Beijing research lab has played a pioneering role in high tech.
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Pecht & Tiku	Bogus! Electronic manufacturing and consumers confront a rising tide of counterfeit electronics. Feeding this problem is the shift of manufacturing to China, the growing sophistication of technology, and the rise of the Internet as a marketplace.
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