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...hero, at least to the Chinese government. In March, Chen Guangcheng, a blind activist who was named to the TIME 100 this year for publicizing an illegal campaign of forced sterilizations and abortions, was removed from house arrest and taken away by police. Chen's whereabouts were unknown until June 11, when officials confirmed he was in jail. The odd charges against him include "gathering a crowd to disrupt traffic." His lawyer, Li Jingsong, who saw Chen last week, says his client is unbowed: "Spiritually, he's very strong...
...relationships - and that al-Ayeri had been captured and then released: "The Saudis didn't know what they had." But having al-Ayeri's identity confirmed helped CIA establish links between al-Qaeda's Saudi chief and the Saudi group that was still in custody. The U.S. cell, whereabouts unknown, was linked to them both...
DIED. Gyorgy Ligeti, 83, Hungarian avant-garde composer whoin spite of his staunch refusal to seek popular acceptancegained global fame when, unknown to him, Stanley Kubrick used his music in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, giving him a new fan base of trippy, psychedelic teens; in Vienna. As a young composer, he was afraid to write down the modern pieces he heard in his head for fear of government retaliation ("totalitarian regimes do not like dissonances," he wrote). After escaping communist Hungary, he wrote polyphonous, unpredictably paced concertos, chamber pieces and other works, including one opera, Le Grand...
Experiments, by definition, are a voyage into the unknown. But Melbourne psychiatrist Patrick McGorry conducted one on young people in the late 1990s that was more daring than most. McGorry was tantalized by the idea that psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia have a pre-onset phase, or prodrome, during which careful intervention could prevent them from emerging—and wrecking the lives of sufferers and their loved ones. The theory wasn't McGorry's alone, but he decided to test it in a world-first trial that had psychiatry's skeptics aghast...
...presume his guilt or innocence, let's let the facts get out," Mehlman said on CNN. "You saw a rush to judgment for political gain." Rove, indeed, appears to be off the hook. But with the Libby charges unresolved, the ultimate collateral political damage from the case is unknown...