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...supposed to try the same case twice, but in this case they tried the case three times," he says. Xu says there were many other errors. According to documents lodged by the Chengde People's Procurate, the government alleged four men flagged down a taxi at the Chengde railway station on the night of the murder. After one asked the driver to stop so that he could relieve himself, all four attacked him with knives, stole about $50, a pager and some keys, and buried the body in a nearby field. With no witnesses to the crime, the prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Order | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...Still, several times a month, women like Yang and Wang Xiuqin, whose son Chen Guoqing is also imprisoned for the taxi murder, visit the main petition office in a run-down neighborhood near the Beijing South train station. Yang says she has no choice. "Of course we still come. Our children are innocent. How could we not come?" In December 2005, fed up with the lack of response, four relatives bypassed the petition office and marched straight to the red gates of Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party headquarters. Fu Yuru, mother of He Guoqiang, who is serving a suspended death sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Order | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...Pickups, Arcade Fire. Who doesn't like a friend who turns them on to new music? But I finally had to eliminate Dodd because the dude kept sending me bulletins. One asked me to vote in an online poll for Iowa's Channel 13 news about which candidate the station should profile next. Friends who ask you to vote for them in online polls are too high maintenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friends in High Places | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...train it to understand your tastes. You can, of course, just listen to the music passively as it plays on your computer. But it's even better when you make it your own, by marking each song as a favorite, skipping past it or banishing it from the station's playlist altogether. (See chart below for more details on how personalized radio works.) And despite growing concern about how proposed new royalty fees for Internet radio stations could hamper the industry's growth, on May 23 Sprint became the first wireless carrier to offer personalized radio on its phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Love Radio Again | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...Many places still have a beer menu that looks like a gas station," says Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at the Brooklyn Brewery and one of the country's leading beer experts. "But beer is becoming part of the culinary landscape. Even some of the French restaurants are starting to realize that they might want something more than Kronenbourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Brew | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

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