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...lived here until he was fifteen, at which point, in 1978, the government opened up the universities to all applicants and he entered the Jingdezhen Ceramics College having only a homeschooled education. His reason for choosing ceramics over any other artistic medium or any other lifestyle is remarkable in that—as far as he explained—there really wasn’t one. At that age, he had no great love for or experience in the art of working clay...
...emerge from this giant mass of clay, but they are all connected, on top of or next to one another, all part of the same edifice. An entire park in Beijing is dedicated to this work, a testament to Lu’s skill and true feeling for his medium...
...each other and later forming an e-mail list, several of the women said they recognized a pattern. They met with Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officials and offered details for a sketch of the man, whom they describe as a 40- to 50-year-old white male of medium build with light-grey hair...
...ninth grade. Whenever his father brought home a laptop from work, Michael would sneak it out of his father’s office to search for pornography. “It was just so easy,” he says. “The Internet was the only medium for me to find that kind of stuff and it would have been too hard to hide magazines.” Michael entered a cycle of succumbing to the computer’s temptation and then to his own guilt. Every few days he would download porn, and every few days...
Such sharp increases over a short period are unlikely to be repeated, say analysts. Their consensus is for a nasty short-to-medium-term correction and maybe even a dip in prices, followed by a slow, steady return to growth. A Merrill Lynch report released last year suggested that if the most recent English Premier League contract - which involved a number of broadcasters including BSkyB and ITV and was valued at $2.35 billion over three seasons - were to be renegotiated, it would be worth only about 60% of current levels. Figures from across the sports world joined in the chorus...