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...expertly fashioned, intricate designs that are very much one-of-a-kind. "It used to be only foreigners who were interested in buying these toys," the former tailor says. "But I've had many more Chinese customers in recent years, such as young couples who want to celebrate the birth of a child." In what is fast becoming another Beijing tradition, Liang's shop will soon be cleared to make way for a new development. But after that happens, he will remain available to make tigers on request. Just give him a call at (86-136) 8351 4421-but make...
Next time you consider throwing out that beloved collection of Marvel comic books you’ve been collecting since birth, think again. Like the winners of the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting, you too could get paid for your passion. This year’s prizes were awarded to Ph.D. student Drew M. Massey and third-year graduate student Grete T. Viddal in a ceremony at Houghton Library yesterday. The prizes are given annually to one or several individuals whose collection of books or works of art exemplify “the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination?...
Many in the pro-choice camp are decked in sackcloth and ash this week, mourning the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion...
...Supreme Court’s five-to-four ruling on the intact dilation and extraction method of abortion on Wednesday was hardly unexpected, given its shifting ideological balance. Nevertheless, the decision to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act marked many unfortunate firsts for the new Roberts Court. At best, this reversal of precedent is worrisome, poaching abortion rights today; at worst, it is simply wrong—the first step toward completely denying a woman’s right to choose tomorrow...
...right to control their own bodies will quickly slip away. Indeed, any task that requires such a dramatic legal shift as outlawing abortion will only be accomplished by chipping away at existing protections. In fact, the common phrase for intact dilation and extraction—“partial-birth abortion”—is a conservative construct that has reframed entire schools of thought on the issue...