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...back to its traditional medical beliefs. "According to Chinese medicine, every single illness has a remedy," says Dr. Lam Tai-pong, an assistant dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Hong Kong. That means Chinese patients are more likely than Westerners to visit the doctor for minor illnesses, and when they go, they are more likely to expect some kind of medication. In addition, most mainland Chinese hospitals lack modern diagnostic resources, leaving doctors unable to tell which bacteria might be causing an infection or whether it's even bacterial at all, so they'll dose patients...
...same time both comforting and unsettling because it serves as a reminder that the New York City subway could be a terrorist target. I have also given up my white headphones in favor of generic ones since iPod thefts are rising on the subways. Yet despite these minor changes, I still consider my commute the best time...
...lawyers are adolescents and so are the judge and the bailiff, who swears in witnesses that often include the only adults in the room: parents, victims and police officers. The perps are limited to first-time offenders who are under the age of 19 and who admit guilt to minor crimes. Sentences are generally creative forms of community service, never jail terms, and the record shows that 99% of those sentenced complete the required tasks. Doing so keeps their criminal records clean, which helps for college and job applications...
...only help relieve criminal-court backlogs but have also proved they can turn around a kid who has gone wrong. A study by the Urban Institute found that youth courts are often more effective in preventing repeat crimes than are other methods used by cities to discipline first-time minor offenders, which range from a letter of warning to referral to juvenile criminal court. "Youth courts provide a more thorough and personal response," says Jeffrey Butts, who directed the Urban Institute study...
...Laden, who is incommunicado anyway, isn't required to authorize such comparatively minor maleficence but merely to inspire it. "The Old Guard is all gone," says a German security official. "We are no longer dealing with the generation [that trained in Afghanistan], a close group of activists who knew each other. We are now dealing with a generation which has kept a low profile." A French official adds that this generation is "learning without leaving"--training to become jihadists right at home, through videos and the Internet. Some radical propaganda videos are now even shot or subtitled in English...