Left Behind

One of our great journalistic mentors taught us that every saga is about money, at least on some level. That axiom certainly appears to hold true in Xinjiang, the western Chinese province that has suffered through days of deadly riots. As the Financial Times explained last year, Muslim Uighurs are incensed not only with the central government's heavy-handed security apparatus, but also with economic discrimination in Xinjiang's booming oil fields:

On Petrochemical Boulevard, the main street in K