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This time Gui sent his report directly to Beijing, where it was treated with the seriousness it deserved. Henan officials were finally pressured into action, but this only made Gui more unpopular in the province, and he became the target of smear campaigns and physical threats...
...taller and lost his round little-boy's face. He has gone through puberty, and his voice has broken. He's dealing with some complexion issues, and he's working on some beginner's stubble. For Goblet director Mike Newell, shooting him is like shooting a moving target. "I've just been working on a scene which we shot in our first week, and Dan still looks the little kid that he was in Sorcerer's Stone," says Newell, who's probably best known for Four Weddings and a Funeral. "Now, 11 months later, he doesn't look like that...
...Bernanke's view, to lessen the possibility of a surprise that could create panic, it is paramount that financial markets understand what the Fed is doing. Although he believes in balancing formulas and judgment calls, Bernanke has argued for picking a target rate for inflation and making clear that the Fed would cut interest rates when inflation fell below the target and raise them when it pushed above. Bernanke's presumed target: about 3% for the Consumer Price Index...
Weil's "Wellness Diet" was right on target. This article will help educate people and alert them to the impact that their diet has on their health. But his recommendation that we "strictly avoid all products made with partially hydrogenated oils of any kind" is almost impossible to follow. Nearly all snack foods, especially packaged cakes and cookies, contain those harmful oils. Scientists should try to find an alternative to them as quickly as possible. People need to know just how bad that stuff is. DAVID R. LADEN Virginia Beach...
...their neighborhoods, the neighborhoods often contain polluted sites. Faber said Cambridge’s large number of students and renters is another reason for the high concentration of pollution. He said these two groups are transitory and tend not to be active in local politics, which makes Cambridge a target for polluters. But Michael F. Nakagawa, a board member of Alewife Neighbors Inc., a Cambridge community-action group, questioned some of the study’s findings. “Cambridge is pretty clean,” he said. Because Cambridge is very dense, Nakagawa said, the ranking...