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...pagoda or two to the more prominent hilltops and lakes. Millions of visitors - principally domestic groups - head to the city and its surrounds every year, dutifully tramping from one designated site to another, cruising downstream to Yangshuo past Fairy Maiden Peak, Wave Stone View and Chicken Cage Hill, filling up suitcases with osmanthus-flavored cakes and memory cards with souvenir photos...
Just as tourists shuttle from one sight to the next, so they are funneled into Guilin's major restaurants, whose menus trumpet rice noodles - served with chicken, beef and even horsemeat - and Li River fish, though the latter is usually from a farm. But simpler fare, at much more down-to-earth prices, is available in humbler environs...
...local cuisine in the form of custard tarts with diced sweet potato. While the city may be best known for its rice noodles, it also does a mean line in soup, with various hole-in-the-wall cafés serving little else but broth containing double-boiled chicken and deer antler, pigeon with cicada shells and ginseng, and the like. Typical of the breed is Anyway - a pun on ai ni wei, meaning "love your tummy." Guilin's residents, despite the relentless influx of tourists, seem to have no hesitation in doing just that, and loving life into...
...Congress should act to prevent this abuse, using its right to regulate interstate commerce to stop the inhumane transport of animals. Students can avoid buying live chickens, or perhaps even the eggs they produce, this Easter. And the U.S. Postal Service should end the live chicken trade—a postal box is no place for a sentient being...
...diagnosis is in, and Harvard Medical School is still a little under the weather—not from the common cold or chicken pox, but because of its faculty’s nebulous relationships with drug companies. The practice of pharmaceutical companies having contracts with medical professors is not peculiar to Harvard—collaboration and financial backing of doctors by pharmaceuticals is common in the field. What is unique at HMS, however, is that these relationships are not openly disclosed to the student body or the public...