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STUART VILLANUEVA/The Battalion
Jim Trimble, a sophomore general studies major and Physical Plant employee, bails paper to be
recycled at the recycling center Wednesday.The paper is collected from the Dumpsters across
campus and brought to the center, where it is sorted and bailed. It is then shipped to Waco to
be recycled. The University throws out between 4,800 and 6,000 pounds of paper a day.
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“Children’s literature in China is
too earnest. Things that inspire the
imagination are too few. Bringing
Harry Potter to China is a kind of
breakthrough,” said Ma Ainong, one
of four translators, all women, work
ing on the series.
Shepherding the ambitious under
taking is the stately, state-owned Peo
ple's Literature Publishing House. Its
editors compressed into four months
the translation, marketing and distri
bution of the first three of the four
books in author J.K. Rowling’s series
for a planned Oct. 6 launch.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone, Harry Potter and the Cham
ber of Secrets and Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban will be re
leased as a boxed set in a first-run of
600,000 volumes — the largest first
printing for a commercial release
ever in China, said editor Wang
Ruiqin.
NAZRAN, Russia (AP) — The
Russian military sent reinforce
ments to pursue rebels in the south
ern mountains of Chechnya after a
clash that killed one Russian soldier
and wounded eight others, officials
said Wednesday.
The fighting broke out Tuesday
near the town of Zhani-Vedeno, in
the Vedeno region southeast of the
capital Grozny, when rebels attacked
a military convoy, said a Russian
government spokesman in the north
ern Chechen town of Gudermes.
Russian positions in the region
were attacked 13 times since Tuesday
and additional troops have been dis
patched there as ambushes have be
come more frequent, the spokesman
said. Russian helicopter gunships
bombed the district on Wednesday
morning, he said.
Rebels also attacked a Russian
checkpoint in the southern Itum-
Kale district, near the border with
Georgia. The attack was repelled,
the military said without giving de
tails of casualties.
Despite Russia’s repeated assur
ances that rebels are on the verge of
defeat, the government’s spokesman
on Chechnya, Sergei Yastrzhembsky,
conceded Wednesday that the situa
tion remains tense, the ITAR-Tass
news agency reported.
The head of Chechnya’s pfo-
Russian administration, Akhmad
Kadyrov, asserted that the war was
nearly over and Russia could begin
withdrawing its forces.
“A situation has formed in
Chechnya that allows a gradual re
turn of troops to the barracks,”
Kadyrov was quoted as saying by
the Interfax news agency.
In addition to nightly attacks on
federal positions, the militants have
been laying mines along roads and
railways in the breakaway republic.
The military said that four Chechens
had blown themselves up on
Wednesday as they attempted to
plant a mine near a highway in the
Kurchaloi district of eastern Chech
nya, near the border of Dagestan.
In Moscow, the Federal Security
Service said it had successfully
staged a sting operation on Monday
and Tuesday to disband a group of
Chechens who were allegedly fi
nancing the rebels. Five Chechens
were detained in the operation.
A spokesman for the service said
that the five-member group had
manufactured pirated compact discs
and other counterfeit goods, bought
and sold firearms and explosives,
and engaged in other criminal activ
ities in Moscow.
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