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...palms of my hands actually itched with temptation and desire." He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese as a punishment, a dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, chew sugarcane stalks, polish ancestral bones on "hungry ghosts" day, and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets - and, one scary...
...INDICATORS Sweet Victory A preliminary ruling by the World Trade Organization has outlawed E.U. sugar subsidies. The decision marked Brazil's second successful complaint in as many months, after the WTO prohibited U.S. cotton subsidies in June...
...decree from Premier Wen Jiabao that poor peasants should receive free treatment, a dozen HIV-positive villagers told TIME they had never received any medicine. Last week, 130 Henan peasants congregated in front of a local mayor's office to demand treatment. Li Dan also lodged a formal complaint with the Shangqiu health bureau asking for his orphan school to be reopened, but he's not hopeful. "They told me they didn't need any NGO help," recalls Li. "They said they could take care of the AIDS problem themselves...
...officer was sent to Weld Hall to take a report of an indecent assault that occurred between July 10 and July 19. A suspect was idenitified; no criminal complaint to be filed. Administrative action was initiated...
...sometimes think that the Palestinian quest for independence is like a childbirth gone terribly wrong. The seemingly endless struggle, the merciless pains of the pregnancy, the fear of becoming a burden, the striving to keep on with minimal complaint, the impatient waiting for the new soul to arrive-almost all are slipping away unrewarded. Doctors in charge disagree about how to best save the mother and the baby. They deal with this crisis with that provocative detachment of men dealing with death without being vulnerable to it. While the majority of doctors insist on the need for a caesarian section...