In the aftermath of China’s crackdown on demonstrating Buddhist monks in Tibet, protests have been held along the Olympic torch’s path.
With the summer games around the corner, we wondered:
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UCI history professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom just posted a new entry to the China Beat blog, a forum for writings by China scholars and writers.
He says the summer games in Beijing hold a very real possibility of being anticlimactic.
(Read an earlier piece by Wasserstrom in the The Nation titled China’s Olympic Dilemma. And, read an interview with Wasserstrom in The Register on China’s move last year to boot Starbucks out of Beijing’s Forbidden City by clicking here.)
(Read a New York Times story of rare critcism of China by the Olympic committee president.)


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Laguna eye doctor hopes to raise money for cataract surgery equipment for Vietnam
April 15th, 2008, 8:32 am by Vik JollyShe hopes to raise money for her counterparts in Hue to purchase cataract surgery equipment. Below are edited excerpts from an e-mail she sent this week about her work in Vietnam:
“We did 59 cataract surgeries during week. They were almost all “mature” cataracts, meaning that the lens had turned white and the patient couldn’t see anything but “hand
motions” vision. (They could detect if a hand was waving in front of the eye, but that was all.)
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