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...three pennies in his pocket when he plays. Fred Couples only uses balls with ones and threes on them. Golfers may be the most superstitious of all pro athletes, but no good-luck charm has swept the tour like a little ornament called the QLink. A lightweight pendant worn as a necklace, it supposedly helps the body ward off electromagnetic fields and increases mental stamina. Clarus Products International has sold more than 200,000 of the pendants since 1999 and claims that 300 pros are now wearing them. The company cites scientists who tout the pendant's effects and offers...
...Brahm, a New York native, arrived in Beijing in 1981 as a student, clutching a well-worn copy of Mao's Little Red Book and seeking the revolutionary fervor he first encountered in Edgar R. Snow's Red Star Over China. He was too late, of course: Deng Xiaoping had already started his radical transformation of the country. Undaunted, Brahm folded his romantic visions of a communist utopia between the pages of his Little Red Book, left it on the shelf and plunged headlong into a rapidly modernizing China. He apprenticed himself to a British law firm and from there...
...Because Dai uses Ma's voice-over narration sparingly and because the act of reading is tough to dramatize, his film loses some of the novel's eloquent and original meditations on the power of books. The Little Chinese Seamstress too often falls into the well-worn treads of a traditional coming-of-age tale. It doesn't help that Dai seems to forget that the boys are living in the middle of the Cultural Revolution; with its postcard-perfect vistas and the endless free time the trio enjoys, life in Phoenix on the Sky seems less re-education camp...
...that view, she is also typical of her peers. While their parents may have reflexively worn the pro-choice or pro-life label, the children of the post-Roe generation have more nuanced views on the issue. As a group, they tend to be more conservative about it. In a poll published last fall by the Survey Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, 44% of 15-to 22-year-olds approved of placing some restrictions on abortion, while just 34% of those ages 27 to 59 did. Abortion-rights advocates are no more encouraged by their own data...
...clothes, the ladies who shop will also have to travel - to the Dior showroom where the delicate chiffon and silk dresses can be seen unencumbered by layers of brocade or acres of tulle. The clothes at Chanel are never mysterious. From the first look (a little navy jacket worn with trademark costume jewelry) to the last (a fluffy variation on the little black dress), Lagerfeld showed stylish, pretty clothes designed to do one thing: sell. Yes, sell. Valentino manages to move more than a few haute couture dresses, too - even in these dark days. This spring the socialites who flock...