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DIED. CHARLES BROWN, 82, understated former chairman and CEO of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T), who headed the company during the historic breakup of Ma Bell; in Richmond, Va. Brown, who spent his entire 40-year career at the company, opposed the breakup. But in 1982 he and his board settled an antitrust suit that split the world's largest company into eight parts--AT&T, with a long-distance and phone-equipment business, and seven Baby Bells...
Later, neighbors would recall the blood leaking from the tote-box on the back of Ma Yong's motorcycle, the screams they heard but ignored, and their bewilderment over why Ma scrubbed his floor so often. For most of the past half-century, such activities would have alarmed nosy neighborhood committees or piqued a work unit's interest. No more. In the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen, declared in 1980 as one of the nation's first special economic zones, nearly all the 5 million inhabitants are strangers who arrived from across China only in the past decade. Neighbors aren...
...getting away with murder. They were rare in China a decade ago, when internal travel by citizens required official permission. Now, with the easing of residence permits and 120 million migrants already living in the cities, criminals and killers, too, have hit the road. In addition to detaining Ma, a native of Hunan province, police have in recent weeks held a man in Hebei province on suspicion of killing 65 people in four provinces, and another in Henan for allegedly murdering 17 boys. Cops, long reliant on heavy-handed monitoring of neighborhoods, struggle to maintain law and order amid China...
...real is it? Sure, it’s entertaining to see Jessica confess that she assumed “Chicken of the Sea” really was chicken, or that she always thought “platypus” was pronounced “platy-ma-pus.” This is the stuff “Simpsons” jokes are made of. But suppose Jessica were to say something marginally insightful. Suppose Nick were to confess to Jessica that—his emotional abuse notwithstanding—he loved her more than he ever could love another woman...
Thomas P. Reynolds, a medical editor and science writer for the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Office and for the Office of Public Affairs, died in his hometown of Swampscott, MA, after sustaining head injuries in a traffic accident on November...