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...having concluded that "this is the way her culture taught her to put healthy young boys to sleep." Four years earlier, however, he had brought a Somali woman to trial for allegedly performing a clitoridectomy, traditional in some parts of Africa, on her two- year-old niece. In 1989 Dong Lu Chen, a Chinese immigrant in New York City, hammered his wife to death because he suspected her of cheating on him. Feminists were outraged when Chen was sentenced to just five years' probation. But the judge had relied on an anthropologist's testimony about the seriousness of infidelity...
...travelled to his ancestral village in Quon Dong, China to see the home his family fled at the onset of the Japanese invasion during World...
...will help her. "I wanted to write letters," she says between tears, "but I couldn't afford the stamp." Tiana hears gruesome testimony from Amerasian orphans and My Lai survivors. In Hanoi she dances with Oliver Stone at the Metropole hotel and converses with Le Duc Tho, Pham Van Dong, General Giap -- old warriors from an old nightmare...
...Soviet empire. North Korea has not only embarked on the road to the bomb, but according to many analysts, it has actually arrived. It reportedly has enough plutonium for at least one nuclear bomb, and it has successfully test-fired a new missile, the 650-mile-range No- Dong I, that could reach beyond South Korea to Japan, China or eastern Russia. Kim's government is an eager peddler of missiles to other countries, and Western analysts fear that Pyongyang could assist other would-be nuclear powers like Iran...
...China's leading paleontologist, Dong Zhiming, believes some meat eaters too may have been caring parents. In fact, he takes the contrarian view that Oviraptor, a toothless predator whose very name means egg stealer, is the victim of a bum rap. The sharp-clawed creature has been found in close proximity to nests not because it was poised to devour unhatched babies but because "it was the mother and was protecting them," says Dong...