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...precise details of that regulation have yet to be worked out. "The threat is real," said Jackson. "If we don't act to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the planet we will leave to the future will be very different than the one we know today." (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...mistakenly presumed to be in a coma for 23 years after becoming paralyzed in a car crash. A recent journal article revealed that doctors, using new scanning techniques, discovered in 2006 that Houben, who could not speak, had normal brain function. He now communicates using a special keyboard...
...contrast with Orwell, however, is that Lu Xun threw in his lot with the communists late in life. This meant that he became one of those rare Chinese writers from the pre-1949 era whose stories stayed in print and whose essays remained in textbooks. That special status has also meant that the work of virtually all current Chinese authors owes a debt of some kind to the stories in the Penguin collection. Jiang Rong readily admits, for example, that Wolf Totem was inspired in part by Lu Xun's writings. And though Zhu Wen denies this kind of link...
...Delhi and Washington have something special going for them, something the Americans will probably never have with the Chinese. At the state dinner, Obama extolled the values of democracy and pluralism held dear by both the U.S. and India, and the shared legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The natural alliance between the two nations seems as fitting as the fusion cuisine of chickpeas and okra, naan and cornbread, munched on by the guests. And it won't need scripted summits to grow. More than 3 million people of Indian origin live in the U.S.; Indians comprise...
Getting married in the state where they went to college—and on the campus itself—has a special significance to the couple...