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...bisexual doctor who has just penned a controversial novel entitled Masturbating Angels, partially in rebellion against his Iraqi heritage. Though initially in favor of the invasion, Salim returns to Iraq with his friends for a wedding to find the country slowly descending into chaos, virtually unrecognizable from the childhood memories of peaceful neighborhoods and starry night skies he rhapsodized about in London...
...perform the waltz and they will change partners regularly as soon as one song finishes. This way, the risk of young love will be lowered.' YIN GUOCHEN, an official at China's State General Administration of Sports, which last month announced compulsory dance classes to curb rising rates of childhood obesity, then tacked on rules proscribing puppy love...
...have sounded naive then, but Dyer was on the right track. Along with some 300,000 other young adults in the U.S., she belongs to the first wave of childhood-cancer survivors to benefit from several decades' worth of research in treating cancer in the young. Now a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Dyer, 28, unlike so many young cancer patients before her, has every expectation of reaching the ordinary milestones in life--graduation, first job, marriage--that most of us take for granted...
...Biennale (until Nov. 21) is limited to the three official artists whose works bob up all around La Serenissima: in the dank Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, where Susan Norrie's videos of environmental dysfunction play; in the secret gardens of Palazzo Zenobio, where Callum Morton's recreation of his demolished childhood home gives off good-humored gusts of dry ice; and in the Giardini di Castello, where Daniel von Sturmer's video installations spill across the wave-like plywood plinth of the shed-like pavilion...
...knew that my parents, as Jews and citizens under the Communist government, had a difficult time in Romania, and I knew I couldn’t compare their childhood to my trip. Yet I couldn’t help enjoying myself. Perhaps I had underestimated Romania...