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Because the Chinese calendar is based on the moon's rotation, the new year can occur anytime from mid-January to late February. According to legend, the calendar was created by Ta Nao, a minister of Emperor Huang Ti's, and has been used in Asia since 4000 B.C. It is based on 12 temperaments represented by 12 symbolic animals - rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig (the dragon being the well-known favorite). After 12 years, the cycle restarts, matching the length of Jupiter's solar orbit. (Read "China Not So Bullish About...
...away from the spinal-cord area. "There are certainly unknowns that we can't predict," says Dr. David Scadden, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. "We don't know whether or not these cells might grow abnormally in a person. We don't know if things might occur just by these cells being present that could result in an outcome we don't want. This really is a first go, with a lot on the line...
...imperative for restraint goes further than the obvious need for cops to take care with loaded guns. Brutality is not defined by a weapon but by a mentality; it can occur with a baton, Taser or even bare fists. The mistake is not in the specific physical harm done by the police, but by the general propensity to abuse these positions of power...
...archipelagos with thousands of far-flung islands. It's axiomatic that their masses of poor citizens travel in the cheapest way possible: by boat. The sheer number of Asians traveling across open waters in a part of the world where typhoons are frequent increases the odds that mishaps will occur and death tolls will be high...
...lack some necessities. But instead of “aiding” the Palestinians by supplying them with missiles and mortars, Syria, Iran, and other countries in the region could provide them with much-needed food and medicine. A concrete improvement in the lives of everyday Palestinians will only occur when the incessant Hamas-instigated violence in the region has come to an end. But unfortunately for the long-suffering Palestinian people, this Gazan “government” doesn’t actually seem to be interested in either real peace or economic growth...