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...writer tells of the story she penned - and of how bad she smelled - after taking a three-day train journey to southern China in a car full of hogs. One reporter explains how he persuaded local officials to help him with a story on rural prostitution, usually a taboo subject. Another faced a barrage of threatening phone calls and had to move home when she dared to document the demolition of a group of Beijing homes and described how residents who resisted were being beaten. Such journalism is far from controversial, but it is also not the kind of state...
...While acknowledging the riskiness of Dorian Gray's subject matter, Bourne and his people are cautiously upbeat about its future. The show has been financed almost entirely by the British venues where it will tour after its Edinburgh opening; in return for investing, they will receive a guaranteed share of box office. Another $300,000 or so has been provided by Arts Council England (a publicly funded body), but no "angels" have been tapped for an investment, so the production will not start in debt. "We're very light on our feet in that way," says Robert Noble, New Adventures...
...Peggy Noonan - and recognize wisdom, because it has much more to do with respect for tradition and the past, and I think skepticism about being able to just take apart a society and put it back together. Because I do think that communities and nations and families aren't subject to that kind of mechanical approach to change. But when I look at Tom DeLay or some of the commentators on Fox these days, there's nothing particularly conservative about them...
...Russia. "Russia's economic relationship with the West is mostly based on oil and gas, but they want to diversify," says Jan Techau, head of the Europe program for the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. But whether the situation demands escalating confrontation with Moscow will be the subject of intense debate at the NATO huddle on Tuesday...
...cells are not subject to federal restrictions on embryonic stem cells as they are from skin cells or blood cells instead of embryos, a fact that allows iPS cells to sidestep much of the ethical debate surrounding research on embryonic stem cells. Hochedlinger said though that it would be a mistake to "give up on embryonic stem cells" before scientists find a way to make iPS cells without using potentially harmful genetic manipulation...