A man who taped a sinister note to a Chinese ex-official's door in New Jersey was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in prison.

China is home to the world's longest bridge, spanning 102 miles, which conspiracy theorists happen to be obsessed with. We all know by now that the country is no stranger to mammoth projects, whether that's a hydropower plant so powerful it's slowing the Earth's rotation, or the planet's most expensive megaproject.

That has left the fate of Beijing critics and others who fear persecution ... That was tough," Huang, now in Brooklyn, said of his trek through the Darien Gap, a stretch of untamed rainforest ...