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Imagine writing a letter of life-and-death importance and trying to mail it only to discover that you have the wrong address, the wrong envelope and no way to buy a stamp. Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been wrestling with a problem very much like that for 25 years. In his case the letters are life-saving drugs, and the goal is to deliver them to the right place at the right dose and at the right time...
...nation's only stud book, issues pedigree papers to 250,000 dogs a year and keeps 10,000 judges on its books for the 3,000 annual trials and shows it licenses. The Kennel Club's eminence is such that its registration papers are widely believed to represent a stamp of quality - and a status symbol. In fact, the papers simply mean that the two parents have been registered. Like others, Cuddy criticizes the institution for never visiting breeders' premises and for giving out registration papers without health checks. "A breeder can mate a blind dog to a deaf...
...name will be recorded in two separate books. 8) Fill out departure card. The first police officer you come to will inspect your passport and card and hand it to his boss. This is where your "permission to leave" slip from police HQ comes in. Hand it over. Passport stamped. 9) Final check. But wait! The first policeman forgot to stamp your boarding pass. Back to police check again and then back to final check. 10) Congratulations. You made...
...travel along the mountain route was highly regulated and checkpoints dotted the road. Only feudal lords and their aristocratic assistants, the samurai, could use it. Women were forbidden to journey independently, and travelers who looked even slightly androgynous had to unbutton sometimes for inspection. Travelers were also required to stamp on a Christian cross. Hesitation meant instant decapitation...
...Foreign companies are generally not required to participate in the crackdown, but working for foreigners is not always a haven for Falun Gong members. Indiana-based Cummins Inc., for instance, complied with state orders to investigate workers at its engine factory in Beijing, putting its company stamp on a document for police stating that no employees practice Falun Gong. Had it found practitioners, however, "the government would have wanted us to report them, so we would have," says a company spokesperson. Chen Gang began working in 1996 for a joint venture of Carlsberg Breweries, the Danish brewer, and quickly rose...