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...enforcement campaign against illegal dog ownership, which began November 13, has caused a storm of complaint and protest everywhere from Beijing's streets to the electronic bulletin boards and blogs of China's hyper-active cyber universe. And the issue has created some unlikely rebels: Xiaomei, for example, is the very model of a law-abiding Chinese and wouldn't dream of doing anything that might get her into trouble. But she nevertheless joined hundreds of protesters who showed up at the entrance to Beijing Zoo on November 12 to protest the crackdown. She says that riot police outnumbered...
...lower over the next few years, the most important question you need to answer is this: Are you truly ready to downsize? It's not easy giving up the place where your kids grew up. "But it's always a profitable decision in a strict financial sense," says Phil Storm, a financial planner in Denver. He argues that living in a house that's too big ties up capital and imposes unnecessary taxes and upkeep costs. "I advise making the move as soon as those bedrooms are empty," Storm says...
Five years on, Digicel has taken Jamaica by storm. Introducing inexpensive rates and phones and improved service, the company signed on more than 100,000 subscribers within 100 days of setting up shop. Today, more than 82% of Jamaica's 2.7 million residents use cell phones, and 70% of them are Digicel customers...
...Width of a storm-equivaIent to two-thirds of the Earth's diameter-detected on the planet Saturn by a NASA spacecraft 550 km/h Speed of winds circling the storm's immense...
...philistines” as I like to slander them—have a galling habit of demanding students of literature to justify their scholarly metier. My blockmate nicely encapsulated the problem: “Why study Shakespeare?” In response, some of us choose to storm off in a pique of rage; others offer lofty bromides, fully aware of their inanity. All of us, however, are confounded, and perhaps vaguely offended. How dare this bourgeois challenge me to justify the humanities by vulgar utilitarian criteria? We pursue beauty, and to quote the French poet Theophile Gautier...