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...Oracle Bones Peter Hessler Archaeologists call them "oracle bones," the turtle shells and cattle shoulder blades dating from the 13th and 14th centuries B.C. that bear China's first known writing-mostly prophecies. Hessler, who writes about China for the New Yorker, has fashioned his own oracle bone: a lyrical, sharply observed meditation on the country's rich past, frantic present and uncertain future. We meet obtuse bureaucrats, idealistic scholars and young people on the make. Mostly, Hessler focuses on four people: Emily, who gives up her well-paid factory job to train as a teacher of disabled children; Willy...
Inspired by a true story, “Happyness,” whose intentionally misspelled title is based on a single flimsy scene, is a standard feel-good film with few twists or turns. Smith literally runs through the movie, lugging around a forty-pound portable bone density scanner, which he tries to sell unsuccessfully. His pace is exhausting, especially since he goes nowhere for the first hour...
...Coming from an unlikely manufacturer?Hasbro?s Tiger Electronics division?Tooth Tunes broadcasts two minutes of music straight into your head using something called dentomandibular bone conduction. The experience is fascinating; a tech watcher like me sees it as proof that the next handsfree Bluetooth devices for our phones will be carried not on our ears, but in our mouths. Your kid will probably find Tooth Tunes to be a thrill, but there are a few issues: the best way to listen to the song is by holding the brush still between your teeth, and each brush only comes with...
DIED. Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican director whose 1972 movie, The Harder They Come, the first-ever Jamaican-produced feature film, introduced reggae to a global audience; of bone-marrow cancer; in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. The movie--which featured songs like You Can Get It If You Really Want and Many Rivers to Cross--helped pave the way for Bob Marley's international breakthrough and launched the career of singer Jimmy Cliff. Its sound track was recently placed on TIME.com's list of 100 best albums in history...
...dead man in the Highgate Cemetery started feeling ill on Nov. 1. The London doctors who attended Litvinenko's bedside quickly suspected that some kind of radioactive agent was causing his decline. His hair was falling out, his athlete's body was shriveling, his bone marrow was failing, just as if he had been one of the firemen called to the burning reactor at Chernobyl. But gamma spectrometers found nothing unusual in his blood or urine. As doctors ruled out a slew of increasingly obscure toxins and bugs, the patient's condition worsened. In desperation, the police sent his urine...