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...Deng's relationships, with Chinese and foreigners, were never tranquil. He could be sarcastic, acerbic and confrontational, but despite all that, he managed to come across as a wise visionary. He could be merciless in cracking down on what he perceived to be threats to the stability of China, and he accepted the communist orthodoxy in the unchallenged role of the Communist Party. Though leaders purged him from the party, he was determined to return to it and remake it in his vision. On balance, what Deng did helped China just as what Bush did in his term as President...
More surprising was the incident in New York City that same month involving Antoine Yates, a public-housing resident who kept a 425-lb. tiger in his apartment. The city caught wise when Yates showed up at a local hospital with an injury he claimed was caused by a pit bull. Police closed in on his apartment and found the tiger. The animal was sent to an Ohio sanctuary, and Yates was evicted, having manifestly violated the public-housing rule allowing him one petunder...
...Granado, Rodrigo de la Serna (who's related to the real Guevara) provides the perfect foil to his shy, noble cohort. Guevara may be the heart of the film, but Granado - warm, witty and full of life - is its soul. De la Serna tackles the role of skirt-chasing, wise-cracking Granado with mischievous glee. And why shouldn't he? This is, after all, his story, too. In the great tradition of buddy movies, Guevara and Granado spend as much time arguing as they do hugging, and it's a joy to watch. No doubt it's their kinetic relationship...
...spinal cord. Huang says the transplanted olfactory cells help repair damaged nerve cells in the spine. Although he hasn't yet published his findings, the results so far seem compelling. "I'm pretty convinced of definite sensory improvement and modest motor improvement" in Huang's patients, says Dr. Wise Young, a prominent expert in spinal injuries and chairman of cell biology and neuroscience at Rutgers University (where Huang studied under Young as a postgraduate student...
...wise to avoid hospitals during the holiday season, when staffing is routinely skimpy. "The worst time is between mid-December and the first week in January," says Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University. "That season's every bit as bad as mid-June to mid-July," when a new group of residents takes over...