Chinese Yale-cleaning "Ph.D." booked for 13 years
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A Chinese farmer who forged a career in   publishing by claiming he held a Ph.D. from Yale University was   given a 13-year jail term for defrauding a publisher of 590,000   yuan ($74,300), a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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In her 13 years, Wendy Mejia-Garcia has witnessed more than her share of turmoil.
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Bernard B. Kerik said in a statement that he had come to learn that a former housekeeper may not have been in the U.S. legally.
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SHANGHAI -- While he lived, China's Communist Party considered ousted leader Zhao Ziyang such a potent threat that it kept him under house arrest for 15 years.
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KRASNOYARSK. Nov 24 (Interfax-Siberia) - The Krasnoyarsk territorial court on Wednesday sentenced physicist Valentin Danilov, who is accused of spying for China, to 14 years in a high-security prison.
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DAXING, China -- Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each...
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A routine ID check has led to the detention of a prime suspect in a Chinese scandal over the sale of fake milk powder that led to the deaths of at least 13 babies, state media said Tuesday.
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Last year around this time, Phil Kessel was still doing homework. Still attending classes. Still an 18-year-old student at the University of Minnesota.
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A Chinese university student in eastern Zhejiang province was sentenced to a year in jail for selling pornography on the Internet.
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A 38-year-old with degrees in psychology, education and computer science needed only 11.8 seconds to calculate the 13th root of a 100-digit number in his head, setting a new record, organizers said.
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A Chinese researcher for The New York Times who was detained on charges of violating state secrets laws and later convicted of fraud was released Saturday after serving a 3-year prison sentence.
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John P. Walsh was a 23-year-old college student when he visited an Elizabeth Grady salon for treatment of his bad skin. He was so impressed he dropped out of college, enrolled at the beauty school, and eventually bought the company, which owns 40 salons in New England. Now 52, Walsh recently spoke with Globe reporter Jenn Abelson. Q How did ...
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In stories Sept. 23, Sept. 24, Sept. 27, Oct. 21, Oct. 25 and Dec. 20, about the detention of Zhao Yan, a research assistant for The New York Times, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Zhao spent three years in prison after being involved in organizing an opposition political party. Zhao was not involved with the party and wasn't imprisoned.
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Adapted from "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, copyright Knopf 2006. Twenty-four-year-old Jay Hallen was restless. He had graduated from Yale two years earlier, and he didn't much like his job at a commercial real-estate firm. His passion was the Middle East, and......
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Previous tests used to take three to five days and sometimes more than a week. professor at the University of Hong Kong who led the research team.
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A 22-year-old intern was given the responsibility of safeguarding the personal information of thousands of state employees, a security procedure that ended up backfiring.
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By Michael Casey, Associated Press  ZHEN