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...Romanticism is in fact Tram's great animator. She romanticizes the Communist Party and upbraids herself for her bourgeois sentimentalism: "Oh, why was I born a dreamy girl, demanding so much of life?" But commitment to the cause notwithstanding, she remains hopelessly enchanted with Western literature, music and poetry, referencing Victor Hugo and Johann Strauss. Indeed, despite her contribution to the war effort, her party overseers conclude that "certain bourgeois characteristics still remain" within...
...Russia offers more to China's carmakers than the opportunity for fast growth. It may take decades for Chinese cars - which today are cheap, technologically unsophisticated and unable to meet tough Western safety and emissions standards - to be accepted by U.S. and European consumers. Russians, though, are snapping them up, giving Chinese companies a chance to gain experience navigating the overseas market while the training wheels are still attached. Russia is a "guinea-pig market," says Bonchev. That doesn't mean it's insignificant. Russia's growing middle class provides a big pool of would-be car owners. Viktor Semyonov...
...course, massage is hardly a breakthrough treatment - it's been used for centuries in traditional healing. The UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, which has incorporated traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western medicine since 1993, uses massage for most of its 14,000 or so patients each year, who come for treatment of conditions ranging from post-surgical pain to migraines. Dr. Ka-Kit Hui, the center's founder and director, says massage is safe and effective across the board, reflecting one of the core concepts of TCM: using physical methods to help stimulate the body to correct...
...retired," he says, and, now, medical training adheres more strictly to quantitative means of evaluating patient progress. So, patients' individual concerns and worries are sometimes swept aside in the process, preventing them from receiving proper pain diagnoses, while certain holistic treatments are less likely to be accepted than conventional western practices. "We'd have to stop practicing medicine" if everything doctors did required back-up by evidence from trials, says Hinshaw, "but we have that evidence for massage. We can see a real effect...
...arrested for illegally bringing Bibles into the country, Fu points out. On Nov. 28, police raided the house of Beijing bookstore owner Shi Weihan, confiscating Bibles and other religious publications and placing him under detention. And Zhou Heng, a businessman and leader of an underground church in China's western Xinjiang region, was arrested in August for receiving three tons of Bibles from South Korea...