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...each time anyone needs to see in the dark, they call the Dial4Light number, enter the six-digit code that corresponds to the stretch of road they want lit, and within seconds the lights are on. They'll stay on for around 15 minutes, enough time for someone to walk from one end of the average Dörentrup road to the other. "The scheme is easy for everyone to use," says Grote. "Elderly people can use a cash machine, so they can make a call to switch on the streetlights...
...normal, I asked the radiologist how many infants were diagnosed with a problematic pelvis. Not many, I was told. However, she continued, the government reasoned that it was far more cost-effective to X-ray every newborn in the country - and fix the deformity before the child learned to walk - than shoulder the cost of corrective surgery when it was older. Needless to say, there are psychological benefits to this approach as well. Adrienne W. Covington, POISSY, FRANCE
...takes years of training to become a otokoyaku. Some spend a decade crafting how they sit, speak, walk and gesture. But the commitment expected does not deter the hundreds of teenage girls who apply for just 40 available places each year. Many, like top Takarazuka graduate Rei Makoto, start out as fans. While still in high school, Makoto became obsessed with NeoDandyism, a Takarazuka production featuring the troupe's well-known actress Maya Miki. "I rehearsed with the DVD at home all the time," she says, dressed in jeans and a blazer - the staple ensemble of an off-duty otokoyaku...
...euphemism for sneaking in a little romance on the sly: hiking the Appalachian Trail. That was the original reason given by Sanford's staff for his unexplained six-day absence from the state's capital - an explanation whose credibility evaporated when the governor resurfaced, not from an extended nature walk but from a covert sojourn to Buenos Aires, where his mistress lives. In the meantime, the peculiar tale of Sanford's disappearance and subsequent confession has showered the beloved A.T. with the most attention it's received in years. (See pictures of health care in rural Appalachia...
...Korea also have some delicate issues to settle. One of the most contentious is likely to be intellectual-property protection, which is not particularly strong in China. And the U.S. may still be a contender. Sputnik sparked an extraordinary American effort that culminated in Neil Armstrong's 1969 moon walk, which sealed the U.S.'s supremacy in space. Last month, Washington launched a $25 billion program to extend cheap loans to carmakers to help in reconfiguring their assembly lines for electric cars and other fuel-efficient vehicles...