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As China prepares to be host to the Olympics in 2008, officials have begun to acknowledge the need to raise the level of public civility in order to show the world the country's advances after just three decades of economic reform. Once the flood of foreign visitors recedes, bureaucrats...
3 Tigers on the Brink About 100,000 tigers roamed Asia at the turn of the century; fewer than 5,000 are left, thanks to loss of habitat and the demand for body parts used as folk remedies and exotic foods (example: tiger-penis soup, popular in Taiwan). The South...
In the 398 pages that comprise Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, “Shalimar the Clown,” he carries us spellbound from Hinduism to Nazism, Krishna to Allah, and Kashmir to California. Along the way, he examines and shatters traditional notions of love, vengeance, nationalism...
Lost, ABC Wednesdays, 9 p.m. People have been complaining about the lack of answers with this show. These wimps were obviously not in on “The X-Files” craze. After nine years of conspiracies, a cigarette-smoking man who wouldn’t die, and more...
Some frequent fliers blow all their air miles on one big, exotic trip. Now they can start saving points toward the biggest trip of them all: a flight to space. Arlington, Virginia-based Space Adventures is now offering suborbital flights?that's just beyond our atmosphere, 100 km above the...