In the documentary Up the Yangtze , Yu Shui, a young Chinese girl from a rural peasant family, has finished middle school, and wants to go to high school. But her parents' future is uncertain, thanks to a massive government project—the construction of the Three Gorges Dam—that will soon flood their home on the Yangtze River and force them and two million others to relocate. The massive disruptions means Yu Shi's parents not only have to move their meager belongings by hand before the flood waters surround their modest home, but they can't afford to help their daughter pay for school. But Yu Shui is determined: She finds a job as a dishwasher on a luxury ship that takes Westerners on voyeuristic "Farewell Cruises" to check out parts of the country that will soon be under hundreds of feet of water. She also takes an Americanized name, Cindy, and learns just enough phrases in English to help the tourists enjoy the river that's ruining her family's life.
You are now logged in. Forgot your password? Zachary, now 19, is in jail awaiting sentencing for five pictures his teenage girlfriend sent him of herself in her underwear. He faced a choice between a possible though unlikely maximum sentence of years in prison, or lifetime on the sex offender registry as a "sexually violent offender"—even though he never met the girl in person. Here's what happened. About two years ago, when Zachary was a year-old high school senior in Stafford County, Virginia, a girl in his computer club invited him over to visit. She introduced him to her younger sister, age
When you flush the toilet, do you know where your shit goes? Sure, in most cities, it flows into the main sewer system until it reaches a waste-water treatment plant somewhere on the outskirts of town. But then what happens to it? Do you have any idea? Despite its goofball title and jokey tone, The Origin of Feces is a deeply serious work of environmental science that strives to do for how we think about shit what Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan have done for how we think about what we eat.
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