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...that owes to parents giving up daughters for adoption without registering their birth. But population experts at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing estimate that up to one-third of the girls are missing because of gender-based abortions. Rural Chinese women also tend to breast-feed girls for shorter periods, providing less hope for survival. Chinese demographers estimate that in some rural areas, 80% of children from ages 5 to 10 are boys...
About 30% of Western European homes have cable, compared with 68% in the U.S., and powerful satellite players like News Corp.'s BSkyB and Vivendi's Canal Plus feed signals to 20% of the Continent's TV sets. Gross margins in the cable business hover at about 12%--about a quarter of those in the U.S.--and subscribers outside the U.K. bring in only $13 a month in revenue...
...agents. Some 2,500 cables pour into the CTC every day from CIA stations around the world, from interrogators interviewing al-Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and from foreign intelligence services that have tips on terrorists. The CIA's main cafeteria has expanded its hours to feed the center's workers at night and on weekends, so they no longer have to truck in pizzas as they did in the months just after Sept...
NUTRITIONALLY ENHANCED Eggs' levels of omega-3 fatty acids or vitamin E are raised by adjusting feed. Next: eggs with boosted lutein, which may help ward off blindness...
VEGETARIAN Hens' feed has no animal by-products. Their eggs' nutrient content stays the same...