'The Milky Way is a pizza'
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The experience of being blind as a child in the 1950s was made easier by there being many blind children then. Work as an astronomer, investigating extraterrestrial intelligence, is possible with developments in technology, and using hearing rather than sight.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2000
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Inside China's prisons for profit
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A former victim of China's 'laogai' (reform-through-labor) system returns to document the torture of prisoners and mistreatment prison laborers. Goods produced by prison labor are exported, by way of trading companies, to the US.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1992
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Inside China's prisons-for-profit
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A large network of prison work camps operates as part of China's industrial base. Most of the contry's factories, farms and mines are in reality slave camps that utilize prisoners for their work force.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest (Canadian)
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0413
Year: 1992
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