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Feng shui. Kabbalah. Botox. Scientology. These are just a few of the highly publicized fads that blazed across Hollywood before catching on among millions of Americans, (except for anyone you actually know).
So what's going to be the Next Big Thing? No one knows for sure, but if megastars Tom Cruise and Demi Moore are any guide, a lot more of Hollywood's aging A-listers will soon ...
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Mao Bio Recounts 70 Million Deaths, Famine, Swimming and Sex
Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Mao Zedong was 70 percent correct and 30 percent incorrect, the Central Committee of China's Communist Party concluded in a 1981 assessment.
``Mao: The Unknown Story'' (Knopf, 814 pages, $35; Cape, 25 pounds) recalculates that ratio: The Great Helmsman was 100 percent wrong, authors Jun...
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BEIJING: China, where 119 boys are born for every 100 girls and 40 million men may live as frustrated bachelors by 2020, has yet to curb its worsening gender imbalance despite much effort, state media said today.
Chinese parents' traditional preference for sons -- seen as carrying the family name and able to provide for them in old age -- was bolstered after the one-child policy was intr...
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The man from Plains makes clear in his book that “fundamentalists” aren't merely knuckle-dragging yokels who believe in a flat earth: “neocons” are also “fundamentalists” Opponents of the Kyoto Treaty are “fundamentalists.” Even justifying violence against judges is attributable to fundamentalist “intimidation of the judiciary.” Thus, Jimmy Carter continues his long history of insufferable, gr...
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When the novelist and essayist Ba Jin died in Shanghai on 17 October at the age of 100, he was hailed by the news agency Xinhua as one of China's most influential post-revolution writers. But the former anarchist, best known for his 1947 novel Cold Nights, was labelled a "class enemy" during the Cultural Revolution, banned from writing and forced to clean drains until he was rehabilitated in 1...
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Yan Zhen/Shanghai Daily news The country's first sex museum will lift its age restriction to open to minors for the first time, as it attempts to become a sex education base for youngsters.
Founders of the Ancient Chinese Sex Culture Museum said yesterday that they would also team up with a local polytechnic school to turn the museum into a training base for sex education teachers.
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Founders of the Ancient Chinese Sex Culture Museum said yesterday that they would also team up with a Shanghai polytechnic school to turn the museum into a training base for sex education teachers.
They wouldn't provide the name of the school, however.
Since it opened in the city in 1995, the sex museum, which is now located in Tongli, Zhejiang Province, has been closed to anyone u...
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They wouldn't provide the name of the school, however.
Since it opened in the city in 1995, the sex museum, which is now located in Tongli, Zhejiang Province, has been closed to anyone under the age of 18.
The museum's owners feared admitting minors would lead to unnecessary opposition from the public, according to founder Liu Dalin, a retired sociological professor from Shanghai ...
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Others point out that search engines are gradually making the domain-name system irrelevant.
"This is such a sideshow debate," said Oxford University professor Jonathan Zittrain. "If you couldn't find IBM at ibm.com, what would you do? You would Google it, and there you'd be."
The dispute revolves around a simple list stored in thousands of domain-name servers around the globe.
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El Mundo leads with a list of measures in favour of the La Caixa bank which have allegedly been introduced by the Industry Minister. They include support for the take over of Endesa by Gas Natural, increased prices for gas and butano, allowing Repsol to open new patrol stations and continued tolerance to anti-competitive practices in Telefónica.
El Mundo has a picture of the Chinese Techn...
