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...open near the South China Sea, providing jobs for tens of thousands of Vietnamese. Like the rest of the country, the delta has a booming young population that is profiting from Vietnam's economic reforms. For this striving generation, their homeland's historic enmity with China is all ancient stuff. Do Quang Tranh speaks of how magnificent imported Chinese products are, describing in wonderment the "beauty of Chinese-made bricks." If he had his wish, this farmer would trade his fields for a job in a Chinese-invested factory - even though his village's elderly commune chief warns against "that...
...What kind of person is attracted to Midnight Madness? Anybody can be a huge fan of this kind of stuff but they do have to have a certain tolerance for gore...
Some fans wondered why, over a half-century, the acutely perceptive, humane, funny writer Grace Paley, above, published just three books of short stories. The mother of two and self-described "combative pacifist," who said she was too "interruptible" to write a novel, had other equally important stuff to do. She was a visible political agitator, visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War, rallying antinuke protesters, and handing out antiwar leaflets on her Greenwich Village street corner. Among the first writers to celebrate the lives of ordinary mothers and wives--with her pitch-perfect ear for the Yiddish-tinged dialogue...
...cost partner manufacturers such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan and Italy's Alenia/ Vought Aircraft Industries. For example, the specification control document, which explains how to build an electrical-distribution system, was about 2,500 pages for the 777. "[Partners] had to figure out 2,500 pages of stuff, and we monitored them applying 2,500 pages of stuff," says Bair...
None of this is the stuff of functioning adulthood, but all of it is huge for a person who was never supposed to manage anything like it again. And all of it is a result of the growing therapeutic science of deep-brain stimulation (DBS). Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic inserted a pair of fine wires into the mugging victim's brain last year, threading them down to the thalamus, a deep, intact structure that could, in theory, jump- start the surviving circuits in the damaged cerebral cortex above. Very low current was sent through the wires, stimulating the thalamus...