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...young dog rests against a wall, a flowing green scarf tied around its neck. The camera catches the leg of a man in the room, wearing Afghan-style pants and slippers. Two men are speaking softly in Arabic. "Let's do this fast," says one. As they leave, a thin cloud of white smoke crawls into the picture. The dog stands on all fours, but its legs buckle. As the vapor rises, the dog topples onto its side, shrieking and writhing. For the next minute, the video shows the dog in the throes of death; the animal moans until finally...
...down as the defining moment in Chinese music history. But the two-day Snow Mountain Music Festival, which launched on Aug. 17 on a picturesque mountainside near the town of Lijiang in China's southwestern Yunnan province, may set the record for the highest altitude outdoor rock concert. The thin air at 3,700 meters has sickly Beijing rocker boys taking oxygen hits onstage between songs. The crowd at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969 may have been a hundred times bigger, but "China's Woodstock" can boast at least one thing in common with its American counterpart...
...that was when relations were good. Two months later, as new facts about her case have surfaced, Tauzin's patience with Stewart has worn thin. Congressional investigators increasingly see her as uncooperative, and that's usually enough to create bipartisan resolve. Sources told TIME last week that Stewart has twice spoken to the FBI, which is investigating ImClone, and gave the account told in the letter...
...hormone called leptin triggered the development of some very fat mice, it seemed that a cure for obesity was finally at hand. If these fat mice didn't make enough leptin, the reasoning went, then maybe fat people didn't make enough either. Would giving them leptin make them thin? The logic was so compelling that the pharmaceuticals firm Amgen reportedly paid tens of millions of dollars for development rights. It turned out, however, that most fat people--and fat mice--produce plenty of leptin. Their bodies, for reasons that are poorly understood, just aren't very sensitive...
...didn't want a 60th birthday party but agreed to it under pressure lest I be thought a sorehead, and so all my jowly friends with thin dead hair sang Happy Birthday in their horrible ruined voices and we sat eating aged beef and heirloom tomatoes with a dry but experienced Chardonnay and old pals woofed about how happy and busy they are in retirement and gave me dumb birthday cards ("Welcome to the Incontinence Hotline ... Can you hold, please?") and a cake blazed up like the Hindenburg and some people I knew back when they were fun told...