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...passed a woman in a wheelchair the other day. In the bright afternoon sun, she was pushed along by a nurse who greeted me cheerily as the woman in her charge--shrunken to the size of a ventriloquist's doll--stared forward, as if examining the summer heat. She was clearly beyond making connections, so in a sense she no longer was a person. Yet I connected to her in her blankness, because potentially it was mine too, as it was Manchester...
...cramped, disorienting dark, crouching low to heave their pickaxes into the crumbling blackness. To pass the time, some light cigarettes, risking a deadly explosion. The pay for a day's work is $1.20. If the miners are lucky, they can take small chunks of coal back home to heat their hearth. Still, Guizhou's able-bodied men clamor for these jobs. "How can the government close the mines?" asks Zhu Hua, 20, who has been working underground for five years. "We need the coal. Everybody does...
...career is a series of pendulum swings, from popular movies to personal ones and back again. For a decade or so, he was just a bright face in the directorial crowd. He was brought in to save other men's movies, as in the hyper-violent The Big Heat, about a cop with projectile dysfunction (he can't fire his gun). To helmed sequels (Happy Ghost 3, Casino Raiders 2) and launched franchises (the Moment of Romance trilogy). Then three lucky things happened: he founded Milkyway to be in control of his films; he hooked up with Wai; and nearly...
...detention period--15 days in his case but sometimes as long as 23--during which a suspect is questioned without the presence of a lawyer. Denied bail, Woodland can comfort himself with English-language books, a Bible and American-style meals but no cigarettes, TV or air conditioning in heat that often tops 100[degrees]F. He isn't allowed to speak or write to friends and family. His mother, Arlene Jordan, who works in the engineering-services department at Fort Eustis, the U.S. Army base in Hampton Roads, Va., says she used to chat with her son every week...
These supplements are supposed to work by increasing thermogenesis--that is, by converting more of the food you eat into heat before it can be stored as fat. Being able to do this safely would, of course, be a welcome way to avoid the buildup of fat and keep off extra pounds. But there are few if any studies in the scientific literature showing that these products can do this effectively or safely. Even so, thanks to a marketing blitz, the supplements have become a multibillion-dollar industry...