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...particularly her feet, which were bound in the old-fashioned way during her childhood. "This was the New China," Lin muses. "Who would look up to a young woman with bound feet?" He sees her only during the 12 days he is on leave each year; after the birth of their daughter, some three years into the marriage, Lin stops sleeping with Shuyu for good...
...walls and ceilings. Yeah, I know I'm 18 and able to vote to decide who runs this country, but I have spent the past two years obsessing over 'N Sync, and believe me, I'm more likely to forget my name than I am Joey's time of birth or what hospital Justin was born in. So don't say that I'm going to forget them, because it's not gonna happen. MELISSA DEMETRO Simsbury, Conn...
HEALTH A Recently gave birth...
...will be a geriatric world, at least in wealthy countries, with at least 20% of the people 60 years or older," says Stanford chemist Carl Djerassi, synthesizer of the birth-control pill. For that reason, he predicts, drug companies will turn from contraception to conception in an effort to help older women have babies. As for aging men, they'll have at their disposal libido and sex-performance boosters that will make Viagra seem like baby aspirin...
Lots of creatures already reproduce without sex: whiptail lizards, aphids, dandelions, microscopic rotifers. And, of course, human beings. Since the birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, in 1978, hundreds of thousands of human beings have been conceived in laboratory glassware rather than...