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...anagrams, in order: get married, cold feet, no-show, ceremony, honeymoon, Mexican resort, disconsolate, sympathetic, problems, bedroom, unfaithful, leave him, adopted a girl, give birth, is pregnant, sexually, well-endowed, falling out, stay single, reconcile, New Year's Eve, happily, bond again, cosmopolitans...
...Rowling gave birth to Harry Potter, but Mary GrandPre breathed life into him for millions of readers. As illustrator of the Potter saga, GrandPre made evocative drawings that traced Harry's often-perilous journey through adolescence, and in the process shaped the world's image of the book's hero. GrandPre spoke with TIME about how she went about drawing Potter and what it was like to recast Harry's image for an upcoming 10th anniversary edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone...
...True, the one-child policy has succeeded in its original aims. It has slashed China's birth rate by nearly three times - today, annual population growth is less than 1%, well below the replacement fertility rate - and has multiplied the country's economic growth and brought more women into the workforce. Yet it has also had severe side effects. China faces a demographic nightmare. Within a decade, its rapidly aging population will suffer a severe labor shortage, and China will have millions of elderly people with few kids, and a Dickensian social system, to care for them. Away from...
...child policy to be phased out, and the Sichuan quake, and its grieving families, could be the catalyst. As with other transformative measures, like the open-door initiative launched in Shenzhen, the one-child policy's abolition could be handled slowly, studied, then rolled out nationally. Clearly, a rising birth rate would place an enormous burden on China's social and medical infrastructure, which is far less developed than physical infrastructure like roads and rail. A change in emphasis will be essential. Hospitals will need vast new infusions of money and other resources. The weak system of homes...
...burden of his people's expectations, supernatural and worldly, since he was first recognized at age 7 by a religious search party. The delegation was following the directions in a "prediction letter" left in a locket by the previous Karmapa when he died in 1981; it included Dorje's birth year, parents' names (Dondrub and Loga) and a location. According to followers of the Kagyu branch of Buddhism, the child persuaded his nomad parents to break camp early in order to be in the right place when the searchers arrived. Within months, he was installed in the Karmapa's Tsurphu...