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...check out the sedate and sequestered atmosphere of the Guyuan Antique Teahouse, tel: (86-21) 6445 4625. Inspired by Ming-dynasty architecture, the city's finest tea parlor is a classy joint where executives come to impress clients and contacts with China's most exclusive brews. Its imposing wooden gateway (200 years old and transported to Shanghai from culturally rich Shanxi province) is the prelude to an interior of stone reliefs and bare brickwork infused with plenty of upscale nostalgia...
...begun to organize. "We're not Hollywood producers," says Richard Doerflinger, spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "We don't have the money they do." Nonetheless, he says, pro-life groups will explain to voters that embryonic stem-cell cloning is "unpromising for cures" and offers "a gateway to all kinds of possible genetic engineering in humans." Although the California measure would initially limit research to embryos less than 12 days old, Doerflinger contends it could lead to "the exploitation of women as 'fetus farms.'" Such arguments have persuaded eight states, including Iowa, Michigan and Kansas, to restrict...
Lydic said he thinks the new center will be very user friendly, but warns that students with a hardware problem will have to leave their computer at the center to be checked. The center will accept computers on warranty from IBM, Apple, HP and Gateway, printers on warranty from Epson, and will repair computers by any major manufacturer without warranty at a cost to the student, Lydic said...
...worm taxes the computer’s memory, forcing it to reboot endlessly. It does not damage the hard drive, however. Davis said the worm is more of an annoyance than a serious threat. The fear, though, is that it might provide an open gateway for more pernicious viruses to enter...
Isaacson, who sees marriage as a gateway to legal rights, said last month that civil unions are unacceptable to the gay community because they only provide for one-third of the rights that come with a state-sanctioned marriage license...