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...ones would jump on board. “Readers don’t want characters to appear half way through the book, or disappear half way,” Goldstein says. And then, like any other scribe, he had writer’s block. Setting down his egg-and-cheese bagel, Goldstein explains that his prose felt “stilted and too removed.” He finally found his voice after writing the early scene when Koh—described as “a sturdy Asian man” with an overflowing briefcase—first bursts...
...been consigned to live in the cramped quarters that are typical of Japanese homes. "But that's the reason we make such an effort to create something innovative," says Endoh, 42, one of Japan's most gifted home designers. Case in point: his mysterious-looking Natural Ellipse, a white egg of a building that looms unexpectedly over neon-sign-speckled love hotels in Tokyo's trendy Shibuya district...
...Hwang said the egg donations by his subordinates?unethical due to the possibility of coercion?were done without his knowledge, and that the donors begged him to deny a May 2004 report on their actions in the journal Nature. But the cover-up began to come undone on Nov. 12, when Hwang's main international collaborator abruptly ended their partnership, citing ethical concerns. On Nov. 21, Hwang's associate Roh Sung Il admitted that he had paid about 20 women $1,500 each for their eggs, a practice since declared illegal. "I had to keep it secret," Roh told Time...
...image in China last summer. On its Chinese website, KFC presented a 1950s revolutionary-style picture of a fist (a symbol of the proletariat). The headline reads: KFC CHANGES FOR CHINA. Owner Yum Brands' Chinese CEO Su Jingshi says KFC is determined to provide Chinese-friendly food, like Cantonese egg tarts. KFC also reorganized one of its most popular meal combos: it replaced Coke and French fries with juice and fruit...
Although the play’s primary emotions are choleric, it has unexpected moments of levity. For instance, in one of the most unusual vignettes, a young country girl (Juliette C. McClendon ’09) who has inexplicably laid a very real, white, round egg (possibly representative of future generations of African-Americans) talks wistfully of how beautiful and strong her “children” will be. The effect is oddly sweet, mostly because of McClendon’s conviction, and lends a tone of reconciliation to “The Colored Museum” that softens...