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...sister had the mentality of a 9-month-old, although her body continued to mature. When the decision was made to place her in a facility, it was only because she was almost as tall as my mother and we were no longer able to lift her and provide her with the care she needed. If the options available to Ashley's parents had been available to us in the early 1980s, we would have done the same thing. She might still be alive today had we been able to care for her at home. Please do not condemn Ashley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has China Got What It Takes? | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...Bihar of a successful merchant family, he was the very embodiment of India's technology-fueled future, studying and later teaching science at Delhi's prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. He also spent time at Berkeley, where he met the American who is now his wife and the mother of their infant daughter. "I have an uncle who owns shops in Chandni Chowk," says Saraf, 37, from his home in San Jose, California. "When I was in high school, I lived above one of them. I actually saw some of the incidents in the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Delhi | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...combination of gases to rain carbon atoms on a starter seed of the gem, which gradually grows into a larger single-crystal diamond. CVD produces a more uniform, consistent diamond in sizes large enough to make an effective transistor. Using the diamond it created in its reactors as a "mother seed," Apollo Diamond can now grow wafers that are large enough and of a quality that would make them useful in electronic devices. "You need to make mother seeds that will allow you to control the end product," Linares says. "For semiconductor manufacturing, that means an extremely smooth and flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diamonds De Novo | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...talks, when China wanted to appear liberal-minded, Cheng seized the opportunity to apply for a passport -- and got it. She also received unofficial word that her daughter had been abducted and beaten to death by the Red Guards, who presumably were trying to force her to denounce her mother, and that the government had arrested the man considered guilty. Only after she left China did Cheng learn that the killer had been given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...Time is of essence,” Cross’ mother Elizabeth K. Cross wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson last month...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergrad in Need of Bone Marrow | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

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