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...despite its flaws, Beijing Doll opens a window to the seemingly aimless lives of China's urban youth. Chun doesn't fight to defend her freedom by marching on Tiananmen Square; she does it by skipping school and dyeing her hair bright red. In China today, that's what passes for rebellion...
...vets, the ability of New Yorkers to process a trauma depends largely on how close people were to the carnage. Researchers have created a matrix called the World Trade Center Exposure Scale to measure this. They've learned that exposure can mean having watched the towers collapse through a window--or on TV, over and over...
...into people and knock their molars loose. My daughter is no shrinking violet. The other day I saw the little darling try to throttle a 6-year-old boy. She threw him down and was about to kick him in the pancreas. I called her name from the kitchen window, and she smiled a cherubic smile and poked him with her toe, just so he'd know what was on her mind. The old man shudders to see this...
...arrest. In early August, police nabbed Pasquale Tegano, 49, leading boss of the Calabrian mob clan 'ndrangheta, but Provenzano remains untouchable. Authorities are still upbeat, though. When top Mob lieutenant and Provenzano associate Antonino Giuffré was captured two years ago and turned state's witness, a window was cracked open that provided a rare glimpse of how the man known as the Tractor - for his skill in mowing people down - runs a sprawling criminal organization while eluding capture. With the new scraps of knowledge, investigators are better able to "identify with him," as one put it, to track...
...have been forced to survive on urial and ibex--mountain sheep and mountain goats--which are impossible to chase on steep, stony slopes. "Cheetahs have to wait for them to come down to the foothills in search of water holes," says Hunter. "It means they have a narrow hunting window, and that is depressing their population." To rehabilitate the prey, which are all protected species under Iranian law, the scientists are pushing the government to better enforce protection against the nomads' poaching and restrict the ownership of firearms in the region...