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...Though the fledgling disorder has been widely identified, defining it in China has not been easy. Tao Ran, director of the Beijing treatment center and a colonel in the People's Liberation Army (PLA), helped come up with a strict definition of Internet addiction last fall: consecutive usage of the Web for 6 hr. a day for three straight months is addiction. The new standard, which is still pending official endorsement by the Ministry of Health, has aroused widespread skepticism in Chinese cyberspace, with many arguing that too many people could be wrongly categorized as Internet addicts under this definition...
...warnings from the school. As many as 30 students from Beida and Tsinghua - China's most storied universities - have been to the camp, says Tao, and it's becoming an increasing trend among students from other top schools. "Our kids are all very special and intelligent," says the PLA colonel. "It's only normal for people to make detours when they're young. Our mission is to help them get back on track before it's too late...
...Obviously, magazine editors are more fun to talk about than the people who sell chicken parts. First, they dress better. Second, while the sexiest figure poultry purveyors bring to mind is Colonel Sanders, magazine editors are embodied on screen (see Annette Bening, Candice Bergen, Vanessa Williams and, in the upcoming Shopaholic, Kristen Scott Thomas). And who can forget Meryl Streep's portrayal of a Wintoury editor in The Devil Wears Prada (whose character, by the way, managed to avert a managerial coup)? (See the best magazine covers...
...Budanov gave his condolences to the families of the slain on Tuesday. A statement by his lawyer asserted that the former colonel - who has become a hero in nationalist circles - had nothing to do with the killing...
...primary purpose hasn't changed - to secure the population - and will remain that way through the first of January into next year," the brigade's deputy commander, Lieut. Colonel Christopher Beckert, explained a few days before New Year's Eve. "We see the primary threat right now to the Iraqi population as al-Qaeda and also special group criminals. Our plan is to continue to defeat them with our Iraqi counterparts...