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...Chapman, program leader at the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality & Treatment, would love to conquer the "yuck" factor that dominates the recycled-drinking-water debate worldwide. She insists the feared health risks of chemicals in water-from fertility problems to cancers-have been overstated and the effectiveness of modern processes for removing contaminants undersold. "The treatment processes are very, very efficient," Chapman says. "Nothing is completely risk free, but the risk of these things is so tiny compared with the risks that we are exposed to daily, like getting in a car." She says scientists need to find better...
...DIED. Katherine Dunham, 96, anthropologist and choreographer who founded the first black modern-dance company and influenced artists from Alvin Ailey to James Dean with her Dunham Technique, a blend of Afro-Caribbean folk, classical and modern movement; in New York City. The exacting "Miss D" worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces?1951's Southland depicted a lynching?that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where...
...university seats for groups that are officially known as the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), to go into effect next June. That decision sparked demonstrations in many Indian cities and towns. University faculty staged walkouts, students protested and public hospitals shut their doors to all but emergency cases. "Modern India should be built on merit, not caste," says Sudip Sen, a Ph.D student in biochemistry at the supercompetitive All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Officials say the fresh quota is necessary because the lower castes are still marginalized. But critics say the government is merely pandering to the OBCs because they...
...rhythms of daily life, pictured. Then, head to dinner at a tiny, authentic Shanghainese restaurant called Chun (Spring) on Jinxian Road in the historic French Concession. Two ordering musts: the braised fatty pork and the glutinous rice balls in a sweet wine broth. To finish the evening, check out modern Shanghai at a hot new bar called Mimosa, located on the south bank of Suzhou Creek...
...shop was the idea that I should produce a book a year--that this was a better way to run being a writer than to think of yourself as a kind of a priest-prophet, the way American writers like Norman Mailer--the esteemed Norman Mailer--did. Now, with modern medicine, and modern Protestant lifestyle, I've lived long enough that the books keep coming--time to write a novel, time to write a novel. So you look for things that will amuse you and in some way challenge you. A different world...