Word: shinning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Still determined, Xiaowei visited a Shanghai surgeon who promised the seemingly impossible: to add 7 cm to her height. The leg surgery would be simple, he said, if brutal. He would saw her shin bones, affix metal braces with 16 steel needles to her legs, then slowly stretch the newly forming bone tissue into a longer pair of gams. A steep $11,000 later, Xiaowei found herself in a spartan Shanghai hospital room surveying her scarred but elongated legs. Four months in the dingy ward have left her stir-crazy, but Xiaowei shows off limbs already stretched...
...Other independent voices have also felt the Prime Minister's wrath. Thaksin has used his weekly radio address to ridicule some of Thailand's leading bankers and economists for making gloomy forecasts. Newspaper editors say Thaksin's Shin Corp., the country's largest advertiser, pulls ads if they report unfavorably on the government. (Government officials deny this charge.) Unhappy with coverage of himself in the foreign media, Thaksin and his advisers have also accused journalists from several Western news publications?including TIME?of bias and of being part of a smear campaign against him. The climate of intimidation has some...
...Visitors to the MCA will be immediately struck, not by darkness but by an explosion of Day-Glo pop. Kenji Yanobe's bubble-blowing Astro Boy wall sculpture, Myeong-eun Shin's floor of 400 plastic pink poodles, and Satoshi Hirose's room of 5,000 fragrant lemons seem to celebrate Japan's ongoing culture of kawaii (cute). But like a sugar-coated almond, "NEO-TOKYO" leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste...
...Around the corner from Shin's pooch park, Miwa Yanagi's floor-to-ceiling DVD projection places the viewer in a dark, endlessly receding corridor. White-coated female figures appear and vanish through doors off to the sides, whispering and gesturing. We could be in a mental hospital playing out some mysterious psychodrama. In another gallery space, five child-like sculptures are gathered in a circle. With their primary colors and beatific expressions, Yoshitomo Nara's Little Pilgrims (Nightwalkers), 1998, could be the Teletubbies?until one notices they are swaddled in bandages. These enigmatic figures are portraits of "a generation...
...last week, because it believed one of Ze'evi's killers may have taken refuge with his relatives there. Palestinian gunmen resisted and five were killed. In the end, neither of the two assassins still on the run were found. At least one of them fled to Bethlehem, the Shin Bet now believes. But an angry Secretary of State Colin Powell demanded Israel's immediate withdrawal from Beit Rima and has pressed Sharon not to push into any more Palestinian towns...