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Massoud Hayoun is a NorthAfrican American writer and speaker on Middle East, NorthAfrican and Chinese affairs. He has written for The Atlantic, TIME Magazine and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.
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A Chinese state-sanctioned environmentalist is selling air in soda cans, attempting to highlight environmental issues at a time when they are already on the agenda -- this week Beijing pollution...
"The nation's hackers hacked into The New York Times' network. This is the first time I feel this kind of domestic invasion of privacy going abroad," a Chinese net user said.
Jack Andraka's studies about pancreatic cancer would have never come about were it not for open access to online journals -- the very thing Aaron Swartz was promoting before his death.
