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...satisfying meal Ryu remembers ever eating. Soon after, she was sold by the North Korean middleman to a Chinese smuggler for $36. In turn, the Changbai dealer sold her to a Chinese farmer in a village near the Jilin town of Baishan for $600. They now have a four-year-old daughter, and the farmer treats Ryu well. His family trusts her so much that she's even in charge of the family finances. Ryu has another child from her marriage to a North Korean back home. But she doesn't like to think about that child too much, because...
...fact, last week's story recycled four-year-old allegations that caused Harvard to suspend its research into hereditary links in a range of diseases. Since the program ended in 1998, four separate inquiries by both Chinese and American review boards have cleared Harvard (and two cooperating Chinese universities) of wrongdoing, save a few minor procedural lapses. A Chinese scientist from the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) who looked into the case also found no evidence of malpractice; all the peasants he spoke to said they gave informed consent...
They looked like they were on a family outing. On Aug. 25, Syed Hanif, a middle-aged auto-rickshaw driver living in the northern Bombay area of Chimatpada, climbed into a taxi along with his wife, Fahmida, and two daughters, 16-year-old Farheen and four-year-old Shakira. As police later recounted, Hanif threw a heavy bag into the trunk of the cab and instructed the driver to take them to the Gateway of India, a Bombay landmark and one of the city's most popular tourist spots. Once there, the family told the driver to wait for them...
...Recommended beheading for the parents of a 12-year-old accused of killing a four-year-old: "We should decapitate the parents for punishment, after dragging them around the town." And last Friday he said of four sixth-grade girls kidnapped by a 29-year-old man: "I cannot tell whether the four girls are the victims or the perpetrators...
USAgain often lets money do the talking. The four-year-old company, which plans to enter Philadelphia this fall, partners with dozens of schools and churches, that are paid $20 to $40 per ton of clothing collected, which USAgain sells for a few hundred bucks. "We don't have to sell wrapping paper anymore," says Jane Ruidl, principal of Seattle's Perkins School, which raked in five tons of clothes last summer alone. "We just have the box out there...