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...brochure? It’s hers. She likes both creating and watching animations as well. Her bow, in fact, was inspired by a character in a Miyazaki animated film named Kiki, a 13-year-old witch-in-training who flies away from home with her talking cat named Jiji and a large red bow. Indeed, she seems to have as many interests as she has bows on her bow shelf. This year she is taking classes to get her license for ham radio, a type of radio communications popular amongst hobbyists. After graduation, she plans to work in a nanotechnology...
...February, 24-year-old Li Qiaoming was beaten to death by other inmates in a jail in the southern province of Yunnan. The initial explanation, that he had died during a game of "elude the cat" - a type of "hide and seek" - touched off widespread indignation at the implausibility of the story. To respond to the outcry, provincial officials invited a group of bloggers and journalists to investigate the circumstances of Li's death. The unusual exercise in public participation stumbled when jail officials refused to provide critical pieces of evidence, including surveillance tapes of the detention center. The comments...
...austere, dim practice room, with dancers clad in basic t-shirts and tight black exercise pants, the lighthearted social gathering transforms into a passionate cat-and-mouse game between the dancers...
...with the flu, a person can spread the infection days before they feel sick enough to go to a doctor. "The flu is a known devil," says Malik Peiris, one of the scientists at Hong Kong University who helped trace the 2003 outbreak of SARS to the civet cat. "This is a different ballgame...
...March, YouTube launched an education hub called YouTube Edu, dedicated exclusively to videos from the more than 100 schools--ranging from Grand Rapids Community College to Harvard Business School--that have set up official channels on the site. Liberated from the viral stew of pop-culture vlogs and silly cat videos, the collection highlights how much free education is out there. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...