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...family. Most everywhere else, the practice is a social stain. Yet for increasing numbers of Chinese, the issue isn't a matter of choice-but survival. China is facing an alarming dearth of young brides. Two decades of restrictive family-planning policies have resulted in a drastic gender imbalance-the country is missing 50 million girls who would have been born if not for sex-based abortions and female infanticide. Sons are valued far more than daughters in China because males maintain the family line and care for parents when they grow old. Girls, on the other hand, leave their...
...policy are reaching marriageable age, millions are finding there just aren't enough women to go around. With so many men to choose from, women are loathe to live in, say, the mud caves where many Shaanxi peasants make their homes. So men in the countryside are resorting to drastic means to continue their family lines, including wedding women who once had little hope of marrying, like those with physical or mental disabilities. Brothers share one wife. The most desperate of all, though, are those who marry members of their own family. Pretty girls who could have their pick...
...been romantically linked to a leading lady (Spider-Man's Kirsten Dunst), and now he's a major player in the Kidman-Cruise celebrity-gossip sweepstakes. Of Kidman, he says, "We're friends." Of his radically heightened recognizability, he notes, "It's kind of surreal, because it's pretty drastic. It's a more definitive difference than I expected. I feel like a lot of things changed within a three-day period." And no one knows better than Spider-Man that change is never easy. --Jess Cagle
...make up for the sharp slide in the industrial sector. So far, it has worked. Last week, the Bank began signaling that a rate hike is on the way, but the evidence of an economic rebound remains ambiguous enough that even the relatively bearish Loynes doesn't expect anything drastic. With rates so low, however, small changes could have a big impact on homeowners' monthly bills, while continued low inflation means the real amount of their debt won't shrink as quickly as it once...
...nation’s highest court accepted the appeal and overturned the circuit court’s decision, universities across the country—including Harvard—would likely be forced to make drastic changes to their affirmative action policies...