Word: perilous
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...Kwan's trek involved some political peril. He was on the mainland to make Lan Yu and I, based on a gay novel published pseudonymously on the Internet. Kwan, a specialist in soft-focus romantic doom (Rouge, Red Rose, White Rose), filmed in secret and without official clearance. The story, about city-man Handong (Hu Jun) and country-boy Lan Yu (Lu Yue), could be a ripe pile of clichE if not handled deftly, but the clarity of Kwan's view gives the affair a somber tang. "You probably don't know it, but I love you," Handong says toward...
...miners working 12-hour shifts in the hills see little of the gold they bring out of the earth. Although working underground in makeshift mud tunnels is highly dangerous?occasionally fatal?it is the workers in the processing units who are in the gravest immediate peril. Unlike Femmy, whose baby was born with tragic deformities, many of the workers say that after educational campaigns by NGOs and the local government, they now know mercury can harm them. But the risk is more than offset by the high wages?nearly $50 a month, or double what they could make from...
...with handheld tummy speakers designed to pipe music and voices to the unborn baby, the better to stimulate the growing brain and get it ready for the work it will eventually have to do. Parents who don't avail themselves of these products do so at their children's peril: the brain, they are told, has very limited windows for learning certain skills. Let them close, and kids may be set back forever...
...with handheld tummy speakers designed to pipe music and voices to the unborn baby, the better to stimulate the growing brain and get it ready for the work it will eventually have to do. Parents who don't avail themselves of these products do so at their children's peril: the brain, they are told, has very limited windows for learning certain skills. Let them close, and kids may be set back forever...
...those meetings don't take place, that would be an indication that the relationship is in more trouble than we thought. There are also commercial interests at stake: If China's state-owned companies stop awarding contracts to qualified U.S. firms, that would also indicate the relationship was in peril...