China May End Long-Hated Labor Re-Education Camps

China may end long-hated labor re-education camps

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Initially set up in the 1950s to detain accused counterrevolutionaries or other critics of the Communist government, the education-through-labor system was revamped around 1980 to hold drug addicts, petty thieves, prostitutes and other small-time …
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Grandson sought in couple's deaths in Wash. state

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CBS Seattle affiliate KIRO says the release came Friday. People who knew Boysen told … Boysen was addicted to prescription drugs and would steal from those closest to him, which landed him behind bars, the station says. Police are also searching for …
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Jeb Bush: Political reporters are 'crack addicts'

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But as Bush wrapped up a conversation with NBC's David Gregory," he likened journalists and their questions about the 2016 campaign to drug addicts. "Who's the hottest Florida politician right now? Is it you or Marco Rubio?" Gregory asked, referring to …
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Walter's short stories offer stark, sardonic view of the Northwest

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Walter grew up in Spokane, a place that has always known it is found lacking when compared with its shiny big sibling, Seattle. Perhaps that mien has leached into the psyches of its residents, too, and maybe that is … corporate agglomeration …
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