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Cook is now concerned about larger issues, such as the central government's failure to maintain the U.S. financed school improvements and to allow the clinic they funded to stay open 24-hours. The government is also balking at incorporating the dozens of armed volunteer Sunni neighborhood watchmen into the Iraqi police...
...whip yourself into shape, could you excel in the current era? Is there anything about the demands of modern tennis that you couldn't have coped with? These hypotheticals can come from a hundred different directions. But I finished my career in the seniors playing with a larger-headed racquet - it was wood and graphite. And I went back about 10 years! It was, "Hey, I can serve, I can volley." I had a bigger surface to play with and could put more spin on the ball. But because of the spin, the ball bounces a lot higher...
Once upon a time, the Communist government strictly enforced draconian laws against homosexuality, imprisoning and even executing those convicted. As China's economy opened to the world, so did the authorities' stance soften, with gay communities springing up in the larger coastal cities that benefited most from the boom such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. It's a process that had been accelerating along with the economy so that recent years have seen the sort of advances that allow young gay men like Xiao Wang the confidence to be blissfully ignorant of past problems the community has faced...
...three different genres you work in - theater, television and movies - which is your favorite? There's nothing like the thrill of live theater, but sometimes telling stories to a larger audience is a separate or a different reward. So many people on the street stop me to talk about The Wire, what it's done for TV, for Baltimore in general, unearthing all these problems. It's a thrill for me to be part of something that big and important. It's just different, but I wouldn't say one is better...
...part of a larger team taking a unique approach to studying reverse transcription in hopes that approaching it from the perspective of structural biology—the study of the shape of biological molecules—will provide insights into treating lethal diseases, including AIDS and leukemia...