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That may be an exaggeration. After all, the vast majority of OCT East's visitors and its 3,000-person staff are ethnically Chinese--there just aren't that many Europeans on hand--and Shenzhen's average annual temperature is 75şF (24şC). A recent passenger on the scenic railroad snacked on boiled chicken feet, a local delicacy unlikely to be found in the Alps. Down a short path from the Swiss village is a working Chinese tea plantation, and each afternoon the development's 1,300-seat theater sells out its Zen Tea Show. Performed against the world's largest...
...female concussion rates are unlikely to fall significantly until girls alter their playing styles. Olivia Kirby, a high school sophomore from Seattle, suffered her second concussion while playing soccer this fall. A goalkeeper, she promises to tone down her aggression. "Don't be the goalie who takes out another person just 'because,'" she says. "Be the goalie who takes out the person strategically." In other words, use your head. Or else you might damage it for good...
That makes me a bad person. But I must not be alone, because America has a new favorite Christmas movie. A Christmas Story, the 1983 tale about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), a 9-year-old in 1940s Indiana, and his lust for a Red Ryder air rifle, is everything Wonderful Life is not: satiric and myth-deflating, down to the cranky store Santa kicking Ralphie down a slide. ("You'll shoot your...
Last week, the town of Dardenne Prairie, Mo., made it a crime to use the Internet to make another person feel bad about himself. The measure is the result of an incident in October 2006 in which a girl named Megan Meier committed suicide, purportedly because she was subject to a series of insults and attacks from people she had befriended on the “social networking” site MySpace. The attacks were orchestrated by the mother of one of Megan’s ex-friends. This infantile woman created a false account, claiming...
...also extremely vague. It defines harassment as engaging in a “pattern of conduct” that would cause a reasonable person to suffer “substantial emotional distress.” But what period of time results in the distinction of a “pattern” rather than haphazard nastiness? And what does “substantial” entail for the “average” person? Suicide? A few tears...