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...provided little satisfaction, they have sought redress through petitions in Beijing, exercising an ancient right to bypass the courts and appeal directly to the central government. Official statistics are unreliable, but legal scholars say that out of the nearly 12 million petitions filed in 2006, only a few thousand will succeed. Out of those, petitioners able to translate Beijing's decrees into corrective action by local officials likely number in the hundreds...
...short drive from here to Mindwube I, the smoking mountains of garbage on the capital's eastern edge, where the hypermarkets throw out meat and vegetables that have passed their sell-by dates. Madeleine, a 60-year-old mother of 10, lives with several thousand others in the area around the dump. When the truck arrives, it's a ferocious feast. Hundreds of scavengers descend on the skip, elbowing their way into the trash and plunging their hands in deep. "The supermarkets are the best," says Madeleine. "It's in boxes, all arranged." Nor do the inhabitants of Mindwube just...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS, a Case Western Reserve University physicist, in a sarcastic appraisal of Kentucky's new Creation Museum, which presents the Bible's version of Earth's history--that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago. The museum opened on May 28 as protesters rallied outside...
...lines are not easy to generate, however, so StemLifeLine requests that interested couples donate at least 10 embryos if they want to take advantage of the service. Those frozen embryos will be shipped from the IVF center to the company's San Francisco facility at a cost of several thousand dollars (Krtolica declined to provide an exact figure, citing ongoing talks with a few IVF clinics). There scientists thaw and nurture the embryos to generate stem cells. These are then removed, cultured and allowed to grow. The surviving colonies are then frozen and kept cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen in StemLifeLine...
...roughly 500 pieces to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The result is "Poiret: King of Fashion," which runs at the Met's Costume Institute until Aug. 5. Fifty ensembles showcase Poiret's eclectic exoticism. Harem pants worn by his wife, Denise, at his legendary Arabian-themed Thousand and Second Night party in 1911 are displayed with the Hellenic evening gown worn by dancer Isadora Duncan to his Bacchus party in 1912. Denise, whose lithe body was perfect for his creations, was his muse. The couple divorced in 1928, but she had the foresight to stow away...