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China's central plains city of Ruzhou is nondescript in most ways, known to the rest of the country mainly as a source of prized decorative porcelain produced during the graceful Song dynasty eight centuries ago. Last week, the city's place in the nation's consciousness acquired a stain that may take years to fade. At midnight, a 21-year-old named Yan Yanming reportedly entered the dormitory of Ruzhou's No. 2 High School and slipped into the rooms where male students slept. Yan slashed some students' throats, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. Others he stabbed...
...Travolta In 2008? In the new film A Love Song for Bobby Long, John Travolta plays a startlingly gray-haired literature professor on the skids [Nov. 8]. The actor is used to physical transformations. In 1998 TIME reported on how he turned himself into a familiar President to play Governor Jack Stanton in the movie Primary Colors [March...
...song ever had so much impact? Do They Know It's Christmas?, the sing-along single recorded by U.K. supergroup Band Aid in 1984 to raise money for starving Ethiopians, was the beginning of a fundraising phenomenon. The song, which brought together everyone from U2 to Wham! (an achievement in itself), went straight to No. 1 in Britain and raised some $18 million. We Are the World, an even schmaltzier American effort, and the accompanying Live Aid rock concert, screened to 1.5 billion people around the globe, raised millions more. Band Aid, the brainchild of scruffy Boomtown Rats singer...
...Poetic Justice A judge in the trial of a doctor, notorious for asking dying Beatle George Harrison to autograph a guitar, waxed lyrical in agreeing to the physician's request to move an unrelated suit because of the adverse publicity from the Harrison incident. Set to the classic Beatles song, his ruling started "Something in the folks he treats/ Attracts bad press like no other doctor." Anyone who had forgotten why Dr. Gil Lederman was famous, has now remembered...
...with flour, dried beef and the birds the party's dog caught, but these walkers have freeze-dried kangaroo korma and bolognese, fresh snow peas, peanut butter and macadamia nuts. Whenever he gets a chance, Wyn Jones - an expert naturalist and a raconteur known to burst into snatches of song as he ploughs tirelessly through the bush - fires up his coffee maker, the aroma of caffeine mingling with the heady sweet scent of pink boronia flowers...