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...tricycle-wagon pedaled by her son for the 600-km trip to Beijing. She wants an investigation into the deaths of three family members, whom she claims were killed for being too inquisitive about missing disaster-relief funds granted to her village after a devastating hailstorm. In August 2002, Zhou says she walked into the civil-affairs sector of the Henan Provincial People's Court to deliver her petition, only to have a policeman punch her in the face. Months after lodging her complaint in Beijing, she finally got a written notice from the NPC petition office. Its advice? Zhou...
...trimmer - "piu magro," as he puts it. And his marketing department has been working overtime. Lining the streets of the CBD, in time for this week's Requiem at the Opera House, are banners welcoming Gelmetti to the city, with a portrait of the maestro looking as grave and august as a Roman emperor: All hail Gianluigi! When he first saw the street signs, "I was very touched by this manifestation of love from Sydney," Gelmetti recalls. "I was very near to piangere...
...concocted narrative could be seen unfolding on the covers of publications like Time and Newsweek, each of which put Dean on the cover twice (by an odd “coincidence,” on the same week each time). In August, they hailed the coming of an antiwar underdog, and Newsweek set up the central conflict that would dominate mainstream campaign coverage until mid-February with their cover title: “Howard Dean: Destiny or Disaster?” In December, the author of that August story, Jonathan H. Alter ’79, who is also...
...conception and thus that harvesting stem cells is tantamount to murder. With views like that on one side and high-profile advocates like Christopher Reeve and Michael J. Fox touting the benefits of therapeutic cloning on the other, the Bush Administration has tried to split the difference. In August 2001 the President declared that the U.S. government would fund stem-cell research--but only using stem-cell lines that had already been isolated...
...Stolpe canceled the government's €5.4 billion contract for a high-tech motorway toll scheme for trucks after the system operator, Toll Collect, failed to solve technical problems with the trucks' onboard GPS units. The decision to abandon the ill-fated venture - it was scheduled to start in August 2003 before being postponed - is an embarrassment for the top players behind it. Deutsche Telekom and DaimlerChrysler had banked on the system as a possible export. Since Toll Collect refuses to pay full damages for the €6.5 billion shortfall in revenues, it is also a further fiasco...