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The KMT used to be equally fearful of its giant neighbor. The party has historically been one of the great bastions of anticommunism and the restrictions on Taiwan's contact with the mainland date primarily from the long period when the KMT was in power. But in recent years, the...
Reusable water bottles merit scrutiny as well. Like many rock climbers, Scott Belcher used to carry a Nalgene water bottle made of polycarbonate, a sturdy, clear plastic. As an associate pharmacology professor at the University of Cincinnati, he knew that polycarbonates contain bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic hormone that mimics...
None of this means Spitzer was a blameless victim of chemistry. Sometimes hubris is just hubris. But humans habituate to thrills, which means needing more and more to get the same buzz. "You want to re-create the high, so you up the ante," says neuropharmacologist Candace Pert. And as...
Craigen Weston Bowen, deputy director of the Straus Center for Conservation at the Fogg Art Museum, died of cancer at her home in Lexington, Mass. earlier this month. She was 54. Bowen is remembered for the relentless energy that she brought to her passions for art conservation, gardening, and rock...
“Old Times” is an intimate play inmore than one way. The plot involves amarried couple, Kate and Deeley, whoare entertaining Kate’s former roommateAnna for a reunion fi lled with sexual tensions,old connections, and a merging ofpast and present that blurs the...