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...nose and my name. When kids are making fun of you in the schoolyard, you go get your big brother, and he comes back with you and he turns into the Incredible Hulk. But my oldest brother was born with cerebral palsy. So I had to develop a sense of humor. (See the top 10 post-SNL careers...
...China and Russia have yet to come to terms on an agreement for Gazprom to sell natural gas from fields in western and eastern Siberia to the China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC). In 2006 the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to develop two pipelines, one that would link Sakhalin Island with northeast China and a second that would join the Siberian Kovykta gas field with China's northwestern Xinjiang region. Completion of that deal stalled on disagreements over several issues, including price. (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...
...someone came to you and said, "How do I develop my wine palate?" Do you say, "Here's a sock?" I'd say, go to Whole Foods and Wegmans and taste every fruit you've never had before. How are you going to pick up the nuances of pomegranate if you've never had it? The other thing is, try a different varietal of wine every day for 365 days. Never order chardonnay from California twice...
...this project with Harvard is successful, we will move on with other libraries that have Chinese rare books,” Zhan said. “Our goal is to develop comprehensive and large databases of Chinese rare books and to make [them] available to all scholars worldwide...
Researchers' best guess is that a flu infection causes stress in the mother, which might in turn affect fetal development. During pregnancy, a woman's heart and lungs are working substantially harder than usual, and her immune system is compromised, so a few infections (like influenza) may potentially become more intense. Although most pregnant women who get the flu survive with no serious problems, they are still more likely than other healthy adults to also develop respiratory failure and secondary bacterial infections like pneumonia - potentially fatal conditions that may require hospitalization and mechanical ventilation. "It is these severe cases that...