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UNTIL PIONEERING MAKEUP artist Bill Tuttle stunned audiences with his work in 1964's 7 Faces of Dr. Lao--which featured Tony Randall as everyone from Merlin to Medusa--cosmetic artistry was hardly recognized. In 1965 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Tuttle an honorary Academy Award, paving the way for the official Oscar category, established...
...fourth annual Intercollegiate Karaoke Contest hosted by the Harvard Hong Kong Society (HHKS) Saturday night. Judges deemed the New Jerseyan Miller the “audience favorite” for his performance of “Mouse Loves Rice,” or “Lao Shu Ai Da Mi,” as he held his own against other contestants who were native speakers. “Now that I’ve been speaking for a year and a half, I feel confident in my Mandarin,” said Miller. The HHKS contest, in Boylston Hall...
...southern China. While many of the market's sellers appeared to be idling away their time one recent day, playing mahjong or smoking, their mobiles rang regularly as restaurants or familiar customers placed orders. "Now deals are usually carried out at dawn or dusk to avoid government inspectors," says Lao Xu, who sells hunting tridents and fermenting jars at the market. "If you want any wild animal, from Brazil turtles to pangolin, I can arrange for it to be delivered to your designated restaurant within several hours...
...DISCOVERED. LAONASTES AENIGMAMUS, believed to be a member of an entire family of mammals previously unknown to science; in central Laos. In 1996, scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society spotted the small, ratlike animal being sold as food in a Lao market. Genetic analysis revealed the animal diverged from other rodents millions of years ago, making this the first discovery of an entirely new scientific family-a classification above genus and species-since 1974. The animal's discoverer, Robert Timmins, calls it a Laotian Rock Rat, and said it could represent "the last remaining mammal family left...
...both the World Bank and the Laos government believe that the Nam Theun 2 dam can help fix it. The project is the cornerstone of the government's giddy goal of becoming the "battery of Southeast Asia," and has been on the drawing board for almost 20 years. The dam will flood an area the size of Singapore, bleed one river almost dry and swell another, force the relocation of 6,200 people, and affect as many as another 100,000 living in and around the country's central Nakai Plateau. A joint project between the Laos government...