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...King (1933), were inspired by these wanderings. They were all undertaken in the company of the colorful Gerald Haxton, the man who was his lover, secretary and companion for 30 years. His other significant homosexual relationship, with Alan Searle, a working-class boy 30 years his junior, began in 1928 and was to continue until Maugham's death...
...more than a retracing of the dollar rally that followed last fall's financial panic. When investors around the world got scared late last year, they poured money into U.S. Treasury securities that they perceived to be safe. That drove up the dollar. Then, after a few months, investors began taking risks again, putting money back into the U.S. stock market and into all sorts of investments in the rest of the world. So the dollar fell. (See 10 things you didn't know about money...
Chinese health officials reported on Nov. 13 the first deaths in people who received the H1N1 vaccine. The Ministry of Health announced that the two people, including a teacher from Hunan province, died hours after receiving their inoculations. Since September, when the ministry began its H1N1 immunization program, 12 million Chinese have received the pandemic flu shot...
Visible symbols of their faith, some Muslim women refrained from going outdoors immediately after the attack, forgoing mundane tasks like grocery shopping. Abdelazeem's wife, Sahar, 36, was on the base when the shootings began; she teaches Arabic there. The family has lived in Killeen for 17 years and has a nine-year-old daughter. Abdelazeem says his wife was worried about going back to work the day after the shooting. "I didn't want to go to work," Sahar tells TIME. "My nine-year-old asked me, 'Why are you afraid to go out Mommy? No one is going...
...half, U.S. President Barack Obama will do much to erase years of perceived American slights felt by 10 Asian nations. For the first time ever, an American President will meet in one room with every leader of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional grouping that began in 1967 largely as a U.S.-supported bulwark against communism...