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...looked before the neon advertising signs began to mushroom. Though Shichahai's lanes have been marked "preserved" by city planners, the area's traditional fabric is under increasing threat from the rising number of bars, shops and restaurants crowding the lakeshore. See for yourself on the three-hour "Follow the Footsteps of Old Beijingers" tour. An English-speaking guide walks the group up the 700-year-old Bell Tower and around the Drum Tower before heading to Guanghua Temple and over the Silver Ingot Bridge, spanning two of the area's lakes. Afterward, as well as visiting a local house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backstreet Beijing | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

Kids participate in one half-hour study at a time.  First, they watch a screen with animation of a man moving his arm up and down, like he’s waving.  Then the cartoon is switched and the man begins to bend and twist his arm in an impossible motion, sort of like Stretch Armstrong.  Scientists assume that children will lose interest in the familiar waving gestures first because they understand the universal wave of “hello.”  Undergraduates time the duration of the children?...

Author: By Aubrie R. Pagano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Experimental Childhood | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...buzzed when I tried to get the DJ to play “Hey Ya!”—to no avail. We bought one drink each before we realized why a cool club like this has no cover (they’re typically 20 euro). An hour or two after we had arrived, Ashley had migrated to a table in the back VIP section. She was courting some French guy who was accompanied by a man with dark sunglasses—at first glance I confused the companion with the deceased Ray Charles...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: French Toasted | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

Sitting in the grass in front of Lamont, backpack beside her, Heller prepares for a familiar ritual. For the last three years, she alternated visits to her then-fiance and now-husband Mark Alfano, a senior at Princeton. She’s got a seven-hour journey from the Square to her husband’s front door ahead of her, but she’s used...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Spouse | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

After his tense three-hour stint on the stand, Pring-Wilson returned to his seat. His defense attorney, Ann P. Kaufman, stroked and patted his back...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pring-Wilson Takes the Stand | 10/6/2004 | See Source »

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