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...thinking," he recalls. "And I had funny thoughts." Later, during the Cultural Revolution, he was even denounced as a counterrevolutionary by his first wife. As a young man, Gao wrote down his funny thoughts in fistfuls of plays and novels, but with the Red Guards attacking the least twitch of non-conformity, he burned all of his early writing as a precaution. This sacrifice didn't save him from being exiled to the countryside for "reeducation." Despite the hardship and the risk, he kept writing in secret, burying his manuscripts in jars of potter's clay each night...
Skeletal muscle is divided into two different types. PGC-1 is found naturally in type I, or “slow-twitch,” fibers, which are responsible for endurance and are fueled primarily by oxygen...
...Gaza night, the streets of Jabalia Refugee Camp are empty, as though the people had been extinguished with the lights. Only the gunmen roam, threatening and black clad, the walking dead who do not expect to survive the Israeli assault for which they wait. At 1 a.m., three gunmen twitch their fingers on their Kalashnikov triggers at the first sight of headlights along the dirt road at the edge of the camp. It is from there that Israel's tanks last came, killing 17 gunmen who stood sentinel that night, and the tanks will surely come again. Abu al-Fahed...
...runs at London's Barbican Centre throughout the summer and in mid-September moves to Edinburgh, then on to continental Europe, the U.S. and Japan - is divided into sections: games families, making and marketing, games culture, sound, cinema, future technology. There are driving games, sports games, kids' games and "twitch" games requiring rapid movements. There's ephemera in the form of magazines and fliers. You can listen to retro soundtracks or play games that create their own unique music. Eleven artists have been commissioned to produce related works. With such a wide brief, some areas, such as cinema, seem rather...
...death the killer delivers is gruesome. The poison?a few spoonfuls of purple crystal granules of carbofuran, an insecticide, mixed with chicken or duck meat?acts fast, attacking the nervous system much like sarin gas. In minutes, the dogs are drooling and their muscles begin to twitch. Within an hour, they are violently convulsing. If the poison cannot be expunged, they die of shock and respiratory failure. "They are absolutely frantic," says veterinarian Lloyd Kenda. "I'd rather never see another case again...