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...wrote and illustrated the original Moomin books, whose tales of the eccentric, hippo-like creatures spawned comic strips, cartoon series and even theme parks. She is also celebrated for her illustrations in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and in an edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. DIED. JOAN SIMS, 71, the British queen of the double entendre; in London. Best remembered for the bawdy, farcical Carry On series of comedy films, she also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED. YVONNE DIONNE, 67, one of Canada's famous captive quintuplets, "the Dionne Quints"; in Montreal...
Doctor Huang is a transplant specialist with a very busy calendar. In the run-up to Labor Day, the communist authorities of Shenzhen, Hong Kong's border wonderland of sin and shopping, execute an array of criminals. This year they are taking aim at violent offenders and triad gangs, and that offers Huang a bumper crop of kidneys, livers and hearts for needy patients, many from Hong Kong. Getting a kidney from death row may sound merciless, but it's swift, efficient?patients can be matched to donors in advance?and a bullet in the brain causes no damage...
...attempts to show in Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, you are not alone. Through his discussion of time as related to changes in all aspects of life--from daily activity, to the entertainment industry, to politics--he endeavors to prove that we humans are like Alice in Wonderland's habitually late white rabbit, a race of "door close" button pushers and multitaskers who cannot win the race against the clock. What are some of today's time savers? Answering machines and computers used by 411 operators edit messages to speed the conveyance of information; elevators are being made...
...spread of cheap, strong encryption is a powerful new tool for pedophiles. Of 12 Wonderland arrests in Germany, for example, none has gone to trial because police can't decipher all the evidence they've collected. A spokesman for the U.S. Customs Service says, "We have the latest systems ... there is no refuge for pedophiles in cyberspace." But that sounds like studied bravado. "Sure, if every computer on the planet spent three months on one of these codes you might crack it," says John Carr, Internet consultant to the British children's charity nch. "But right now, the seesaw...
...keeping tabs on child porn sites, police can sometimes manage to identify new victims and arrest the abuser before more horrors are perpetrated. Unfortunately, that's not the norm. Of more than 1,260 victims in the Wonderland archives, only 17 have been identified. And the demand for fresh images, which the Internet's reach only intensifies, means that uncounted other innocents will become victims...