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...still almost double that for unrelated couples. Denizens of the incest villages see ample evidence of this. Near the city of Yan'an, a brother and sister squat in the mud-brick slums, signing a secret language to each other: both Cao Shuai and Cao Jing were born deaf, to parents who are first cousins. This spring in Yan'an county, a severely retarded newborn girl was found abandoned beside a road. Authorities tracked down her parents, only to find that they were brother and sister...
...crimes; it was the attitude. Catholics have been enduring tragic sex scandals on and off since 1985. What has shocked them for the past four months has been the news reports and court documents that confirmed the worst caricature of a hierarchy endlessly protective of its clergy but deaf to the agony of mere churchgoers. That portrait, composed as it is of worst-case scenarios, may well be distorted. But it has raised fundamental questions of authority. "It creates a disconnect," says William V. D'Antonio, a sociologist at Catholic University of America. "It puts the whole system under structural...
...Sept. 11 attacks demonstrated that cooperation between national intelligence agencies is vital in battling global terror. Yet French antiterrorism officials complain that they are being shut out by their U.S. counterparts. "We're expected to turn over everything we turn up, but our requests for information fall on deaf ears," says a senior French antiterrorism official...
...which bills itself as the network that makes shows the others can't, picked up The Wire (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), a sprawling octopus of a story that follows a single drug investigation over 13 episodes. (Later this month Showtime adds Street Time, an earnest but somewhat tone-deaf series about parolees and parole officers.) Creator David Simon says The Wire is "not a cop show" but a series about how the drug trade and the war against it have become institutions that chew up and spit out the people who work in them...
...years, tours have brought the National Theatre of the Deaf to all 50 states, and the group was the first to play in Communist China in 1986 and the first to travel to South Africa after the end of apartheid...