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...Beijing after an underground DVD depicting the Ansai county crackdown began circulating in the capital. Zhu Jiuhu, one of China's most prominent defense attorneys, took up the cause in May when he tried to lodge a lawsuit against the Shaanxi government on behalf of drillers and investors. The suit was rejected by a provincial court on grounds that the evidence presented was "not objective." About two months ago, when Zhu visited the province to meet with peasants to prepare an appeal, police arrested him for "disturbing social order." As with nine former well owners detained in May and June...
...Sorenson, one of Hong Kong Disneyland's landscape architects. Fantasyland has a garden where photo-happy tourists can always find Mickey, Minnie and other popular characters. Mulan will have her own pavilion in the garden, designed like a Chinese temple. Mickey even has a new red-and-gold Chinese suit to wear. Restaurants boast local fare, such as Indian curries, Japanese sushi and Chinese mango pudding served in containers shaped like Mickey Mouse heads...
...want to grab some exercise between meetings. There's one option that lets you work out without working up a lather. Bluetrail, a 1.6-km-long exercise path starting in Bürkliplatz in the Swiss city's business district, was designed to get everyone moving, even men in suits. The trail's blue panels display gentle Tai Chi and qigong-like exercises. Communications agency owner David Güggenbuhl, who worked with Chinese doctors to develop Bluetrail, says, "One requirement was that these exercises could be done in a suit and tie without looking ridiculous." Certainly, nobody snickers when...
...that each weighed just 5 lbs., small enough to place in a small rucksack. The bombs, police said, were placed on the floor of the train cars. In the case of the bus, shortly after the explosion a TIME reporter saw a tall, thin man in a black pinstripe suit telling police officers, "I think I saw something," and mentioning a man with a rucksack, before the witness was whisked away. Later, passengers told the press they had seen a young man on the bus playing with a bag before the bomb went off. Scotland Yard says only that...
Goodwin’s suit against the University ended in April when a six-member federal jury deliberated for less than four hours before ruling that the University did not illegally discriminate against her in passing her over for promotions...