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These cautionary tales confront wide-eyed readers of the new book Girls, Be Vigilant!, an official publication of the Chinese government. The usually puritanical press is blossoming with articles on sex, one sign that traditional policies of sexual repression are undergoing attack. The sex-crime rate has soared, particularly cases...
While China's leaders do not believe that masturbation results in hairy palms and blindness, the book states that the practice can lead to "dizziness, insomnia, too much dreaming, exhaustion, aching in the back and waist, worsening of the memory, absentmindedness, lack of appetite, palpitation, shortness of breath, headache, dimmed...
Diana's relations with her in-laws are said to be mixed. She maintains that she and Princess Anne (though they are as different as grape and grain) have "always hit it off very well." But palace pundits suggested that Anne's decision to go galloping through the Gloucestershire countryside...
Yet despite the Sharon verdict in TIME's favor, which might suggest that the test of "actual malice" is as sturdy as ever, the growing number of libel suits involving stories on the official conduct of government figures threatens to strike at the core of what the Supreme Court sought...
The initiators of the series, Britain's Granada Television, approached the adaptation of Jewel with a method that seemed like madness. Half of the episodes were directed by Television Veteran Christopher Morahan, 55 (Uncle Vanya, Old Times), the other half by Jim O'Brien, 37, who has directed...