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...Zemin immediately offered aid and condolences to the victims, and China's Red Cross began allocating funds and relief supplies for the island. The quake "hurt the hearts of people on the mainland as the Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are as closely linked as flesh and blood," China's official news agency quoted Jiang as saying. But assistance from Beijing may turn out to be a political hot potato, because unlike Greece and Turkey, which have recently managed to overcome some the traditional hostility between them by helping each other through traumatic earthquakes, the heart...
...This is a flesh-and-blood decision, choosing a real college with real people," he says. "There's no way a ranking can truly capture that...
...communion.) The money that would have been spent on the cigarettes should be donated to the needy, the manual intones. But besides enlarging charity coffers, what sort of spiritual good is done by a parishioner who stops smoking? Catholic officials call smoking, like drinking, "a mortification of the flesh," and maintain that when a believer denies himself the pleasure of satisfying an addiction, he is committing penance for his sins...
...Sinha offers an intriguing look at his spiral into Net addiction during the 1980s as he gets sucked into intense role-playing games and meets eccentric computer-virus writers and fellow Net addicts. Along the way, he discovers that experience is equally "real," whether online or in the flesh. While the blurring of reality and illusion is not a new theme, Sinha's rich narrative and thoughtful observations propel this engaging memoir...
While civilians are encouraged to read and professional poets show up, it's the cops who are causing the interest, maybe because of contributions like this one from Officer Linda Griffith: "He allows me to walk [amid] the danger./He lets me extend help to a stranger./My flesh crawls and I miss him when he's not under my wing./I don't let people see or touch him, it's a private thing./So you should be grateful and understand what I've done./If and when I let you touch the butt...