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Zhou Shuguang's brief but spectacular career as China's first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou's offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs. The assault took place during a short stint in jail, after which plainclothes cops escorted Zhou to the airport and put him on a plane home, with dire warnings about what would happen to him if he returned. The small, bespectacled 26-year-old took heed. "I will keep silent...
Definition sel-fohn nov-uhl n. A novel written using the characters on a cell-phone keypad. A mostly Japanese phenomenon, cell-phone novels are primarily composed of brief, text-message-like sentences...
...dead in an Manhattan apartment, at the unbearably young age of 28. (An autopsy on Wednesday proved inconclusive and a medical examiner may take at least 10 days to come up with a cause of death.) It's tempting to look for signs of a melancholy temperament in our brief meeting, an interview for a story in TIME. But mostly what he gave off was dissatisfaction...
That's how Saddam Hussein's flag came to be on my wall. It may bear the dictator's evil imprint, but it reminds me of a brief moment when Iraqis were able to put Saddam behind them and look forward to a better life...
...fleeing an attacking bear, since the things you need to do to save yourself require boosting your heart rate and respiration, tensing your muscles and generally cranking up your body's alert level. But such an energy-intensive system is designed to be used only in brief bursts; you either escape the bear or you get eaten by it, but either way the crisis ends. The daily stresses of the modern world can throw our bodies into emergency mode and keep us there. That takes a toll through high blood pressure, tension headaches and a lot of gnawed pencils...