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...unprecedented are the events unfolding in Chongqing, Sichuan province's largest city, that they are raising a slew of questions about their significance among both Chinese and foreign analysts. Could this be the beginning of a nationwide crackdown on corruption? Could the revelations about the role of the party damage the confidence of ordinary Chinese in their rulers? And is this really about corruption, or is it yet another manifestation of an intra-party struggle for power? (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...majority of students will subsist on instant Ramen noodles and peanut butter sandwiches. But a new cookbook sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals encourages undergraduates to channel their inner Julia Child. “PETA’s Vegan College Cookbook” offers a slew of recipes that reinvent basic survival items—such as the aforementioned instant pasta or peanut butter—in the form of quick-fix dishes appropriate for any meal...
Whenever FlyBy goes to symphony concerts, it is always distressing to see a slew of gray- and white-haired heads in front of FlyBy—and very few young people. It is also distressing to hear one's hometown classical music station begging for donations, explaining (subtly but not) that their fundraising base is literally dying...
...with a mild outcome far from a lock, a slew of other researchers with Harvard ties are investigating the vaccines and viral pathology necessary to combat the virus if outbreaks balloon into an epidemic and grappling with the question of how government leaders should handle the worst-case scenario...
...Republican circles earlier this year that was decently funny, by Washington standards, and had the added virtue of being true: Barack Obama has more czars than the Romanovs ever did. The quip, tweeted by Senator John McCain, was a thinly veiled gripe about the President's appointment of a slew of policy coordinators tasked with everything from reforming health care to restoring the Great Lakes. The White House advisers drew wide attention earlier this month when green-jobs czar Van Jones was forced to resign after revelations of impolitic comments about Republicans and his support for a petition suggesting...