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...them up, but hasn't yet figured out how to dispose of the corroding metal shells. Meanwhile, the Chinese peasantry figures out its own uses for these historical relics. "I found one guy who had a chemical weapon sticking out of the ground by his front door," says Bu Ping, vice president of the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences and an expert on Japan's chemical weapons program in China. "He was using it as a doorstop." A lawsuit has been brought by Chinese who have been injured by discarded chemical weapons decades after the war ended; the case...
...hard to tell what looks worse at the start of Hollywood Hong Kong: the blanched, blood-flecked, bloated pig carcasses hanging in Chu's Barbecue Shop, or the blanched, blood-flecked, bloated Mr. Chu (Glen Chin) and his obese sons Ming (Ho Sai-man) and Tiny (Leung Sze-ping). Perhaps the pigs, in a toss-up. They are dead. The Chus look only halfway there...
...diuretics without being aware of it," says Dr. Lee. "They lose water and with it, potassium and other vital body-regulating electrolytes." Reduced potassium can cause an irregular heartbeat, even coma. "What can be O.K. for a month can cause serious damage over the long term," says Professor Leung Ping-chung, chairman of the Institute of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He performed a recent study of 15 diet pills available in Hong Kong and found the packaging of only one mentioned potential long-term side effects...
...physical training. Anointed a three-star general and head of the Mangla army base, located at the most sensitive stretch of the Line of Control dividing Kashmir, he was famous for speeding through work by 2 p.m. so he could spend the rest of the day sailing and playing Ping-Pong, tennis or squash with the men. "There wasn't a game he couldn't learn," says Major General Rashid Qureshi, who served with Musharraf and is his official spokesman. "We found him everywhere the troops were." It's a refrain you hear often in military circles: Musharraf was excellent...
...transmitted in photons, or particles of light-in one shaft of laser light and instantaneously rebuild a replica of it in a second laser beam. Star Trek-style transporters that could move objects through space are still remote, however. "Teleporting of that kind is very far away," says Dr. Ping Koy Lam, since scientists still can't teleport atoms. The U.S. Sue You in Court Lawyers have .led a suit in New York on behalf of four South Africans seeking $50 billion from U.S. and Swiss corporations for the "blood and misery" the companies allegedly caused by doing business with...