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HONG KONG — I know where to get the best dim sum. I've printed out listings of swanky restaurants. I'm dreaming of street meat and cheap pastries, Portuguese egg tarts and piles of fresh seafood...

Author: By Lingbo Li | Title: Breakfast in Cantonese | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...first order of business is a real breakfast. No Starbucks coffee and definitely no Egg McMuffins. I want to eat in places where the chairs don't match and the menus are on the verge of falling apart. To me, nothing says authenticity like being mildly concerned about food safety...

Author: By Lingbo Li | Title: Breakfast in Cantonese | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...March, and unrest in Hetian (or Khotan in the Uighur language) in March. He quoted the leader of the East Turkestan Liberation Organization as saying, "The Beijing Games are our one last golden opportunity to inflict such attacks on China. Even though we know we are weak like an egg on a stone, they will try to smear the stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jihad in China's Far West | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...shown that 10% to 15% of men don't respond to hormonal treatments at all - a fairly high nonresponder rate. Researchers don't yet know how to explain those failures. One inherent stumbling block is that a male contraceptive must block millions of sperm, as opposed to a single egg. (The Pill had it easy.) Another is race: according to several proof-of-concept studies, Asian men maintained a suppressed sperm count with greater frequency than Caucasians, but researchers still don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Wait for Male Birth Control | 8/3/2008 | See Source »

...spent roughly $100,000 on advertising," Eggan said. "We've only had one woman follow through and go through the considerable effort of donating oocytes [egg cells] for research. I would characterize the number of oocytes she donated as a handful. And the results we had from those very few initial experiments were encouraging, but there's no sign of additional donors in sight...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard, Columbia Researchers Make Stem Cell Breakthrough | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

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