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Kids will be streaming into multiplexes this weekend for Austin Powers in Goldmember. They will be lured by a flood of TV spots, a million-dollar-giveaway fast-food tie-in--and the chance to see Mike Myers pee into the mouth of a supine villain. This is what the sexually adventurous call a golden shower, and what the movie-ratings board calls...
...citizens say graft and corruption are their top concerns, according to a study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. But despite a highly publicized national crackdown?Chinese newspapers are constantly filled with stories of big-name arrests and executions?Beijing appears unable to stem a flood tide. Individually, ordinary Chinese can do little to protect themselves. In the city of Yiyang in central Hunan province, a middle-school teacher was killed recently by a hit man, according to the police, after he told local journalists that 600 teachers had not been paid in months because the local...
Kids will be streaming into multiplexes this weekend for Austin Powers in Goldmember. They will be lured by a flood of TV spots, a million-dollar-giveaway fast-food tie-in - and the chance to see Mike Myers pee into the mouth of a supine villain. This is what the sexually adventurous call a golden shower, and what the movie-ratings board calls...
...great deal. That is because at its best, with very rare exceptions, even simple and very direct poetry is now quite difficult for most readers. But now what is not difficult for most readers? In our society, in which the screen dominates and everything is visual and the flood of information is incessant, teaching people how to read is a major enterprise...
...dike that seals off a portion of Isahaya Bay; when fully dried out, it will be sold as farmland. Environmentalists and some fishermen say the project is already responsible for the extinction of 55 species of animal and marine life. The government says the seawall is necessary for flood control. Both sides are probably right. At any rate, the six-kilometer-long dam is an impressive sight...