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...Tangbai River in central China, for example, officials from Beijing visited earlier this year and promised a clean-up after a campaign by local activists drew national media attention to the cocktail of pollutants including chromium, benzene and volatilized phenol that had poisoned wells and, in at least one village, caused rice to stop growing and cancer rates to spike. But just last month, a tributary of the Tangbai was so polluted that when a TIME reporter drove by, hundreds of people stood along the banks of a stream with a powerful chemical stench, pulling out dead and dying fish...
...father’s letters from Vietnam. There are real-life sources propping up Horn’s novel as well: the central art-theft story is ripped from old headlines of The New York Times, when a Chagall painting did in fact disappear during a singles’ cocktail hour...
...Friday night (or Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday for that matter), cool college kids are ditching drinks and snubbing soirees, opting instead just to “rage.” Or go to a rage, host a big rager, be a big rager, or spend the night raging. Cocktail hour now screams country club, pre-gaming echoes back to the Yard, old-school partying is passé. So in the world of semantics and spirits, it’s no wonder that raging’s the rage. I first heard the word “rager” from groups...
...occurred while processing this directive] such as David Miliband and James Purnell, the party's next generation of leaders has plenty of steam. That was the upbeat side of Labour's annual conference last week in Manchester. But its evil twin lurked close by. Delegates seemed afflicted with a cocktail of maladies that until recently were Conservative diseases: feuding, plotting, depression, exhaustion. Almost 10 years in power is a long time, and it has dulled Labour's survival instinct. Regardless of his star qualities, Blair remains in office only by having promised to leave it within a year. His Iraq...
...municipal authorities[an error occurred while processing this directive] launched an urban-regeneration scheme that today is starting to bear real fruit. The sex workers and pushers are gone and a Gürtel address is now one of the most fashionable in the Austrian capital. Cocktail lounges, nightclubs and restaurants that act as a magnet for Vienna's well-heeled scenemakers have replaced the workshops and long-suffering traders who once made their homes beneath the brick archways of the U-bahn - the Gürtel's elevated railway. A restaurant like BABU...