Debra Bruno
Debra Bruno has worked for Roll Call and Legal Times. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, among other outlets.
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Anxiety, Traditional Medicine, and Plenty of Purell: Beijing Watches and Waits for Bird Flu
"From day one we were getting a lot of phone calls from nervous patients."
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China Expert: China Is Fast Approaching Urban Disaster
"We're creating a huge urban underclass of people who can’t function in the society."
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The Secret to Harbin's Tourism Success: A Las Vegas-Style Snow Festival
China's northern-most city is dark and freezing most of the time. But it draws crowds with gigantic sculptures, light and ice shows, even tigers.
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It's Lonely Trying to Convince Chinese Hospitals to Go Smoke Free
Dr. Dan Xiao battles attitudes toward tobacco that more closely resemble the U.S. of the 1940s or '50s.
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Can an Ancient Chinese City Pursue Preservation Without Disney-fication?
One of China’s last walled cities is having an identity crisis.
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The Lonely Life of the Chinese Graffiti Writer
Spray-painting walls in Beijing isn't actually all that dangerous. So why are there so few people doing it?
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The De-Bikification of Beijing
Cycling has dropped precipitously in China's capital. Will it ever be popular again?
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The Big Fix
Beijing's Feral Cat Problem Comes Back
Four years after "cleansing" the city of its strays in advance of the Olympics, somewhere between 500,000 and 5 million cats have returned to Beijing. But is relying on volunteers to trap, neuter, and release them the best plan?
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One Month in Beijing = Smoking 5 Cigarettes
The city's notorious pollution is put into perspective by a local physician.
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Learning to Navigate a City of Smog
How I'm figuring my way around Beijing
