<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/29859f63-fb45-4e7e-8d6c-78548349ef3b/2ABC86F6-DB36-4339-8F31-B63FBACD5165/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy" href="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy" style="font-size: 11px;">www.itworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy"><DIV class="date_src"><SPAN class="publish_date">July 9, 2009, 02:27 PM —  </SPAN><SPAN class="source_link">IDG News Service</SPAN> —  </DIV><P> </P><P> Tao Ran, the founder of a youth rehabilitation center on a Beijing army base, has made it his mission to treat teenagers who are antisocial, doing poorly in school and are sometimes depressed. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.itworld.com/img/E7B6DDF7-BCFE-428C-90F4-C47AC8E73404" alt="China Youth Psychological Growth Base" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy"><P> Tao sends his "students" through a strict regimen of military drills, martial arts training, lectures and sessions with psychiatrists. Drill sergeants shout orders at the teenagers, most between 15 and 19 years old, as they march in military fatigues between activities. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy"><P> But the cardinal rule for these troubled youth: no Internet. For three months, the usual length of stay. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy"><P> Parents force most of the teens to come to the center in Beijing's southern suburbs. Many are tricked into coming, sometimes in the middle of the night. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.itworld.com/img/6F470781-4539-4674-86E8-188076511D87" alt="China Youth Psychological Growth Base" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy">Among the other centers for Internet addiction in China is one that stirred controversy in recent months for its use of electric shock treatment. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.itworld.com/internet/70777/chinese-web-addicts-get-boot-camp-therapy">The shocks were meant to make patients associate a negative feeling with Internet use</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2ABC86F6-DB36-4339-8F31-B63FBACD5165/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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