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...shark clamped down. Aware that two girls were still farther out in the water, Vance walked backward, pulling the shark along the sandy bottom of the shallow sea toward shore. With Jessie's arm only partly swallowed, the shark tried to wiggle free from Vance's barehanded grasp. But Vance, at 6 ft. 1 in. and 200 lbs., held on and dragged it to shore where his wife Diana and others had laid Jessie on the sand...
...Kudos to the U of M for figuring out what hundreds of American employers still can?t quite grasp: Even if they work the same job, for the same hours, with the same experience, women in the U.S. are on average still paid less than...
...there were more playful references to the YSL archives. Yet he's no copyist. When he draws on archives, it's for reference, not reverence. It's much fresher that way. And in his mastery of the now and the new, in his ability to create clothes that grasp and articulate fleeting tastes, Ford is well on his way to securing a lasting place in an ephemeral trade...
...crackdown is revealing. Though decades of economic reforms have empowered many in Chinese society, the party retains a firm grasp on the tools of repression. But it deploys them only when it feels directly threatened. In 1992 a grain clerk named Li Hongzhi, who had once played trumpet with a song-and-dance troupe, first mingled the tenets of Buddhism, Taoism and traditional qigong exercises to create Falun Gong, a cocktail of religious beliefs and physical exercises aimed at leading its practitioners to enlightenment. The party took no action, though Li published books, sold videotapes and lectured to large audiences...
Your Comment: --> Though decades of economic reforms have empowered many in Chinese society?entrepreneurs, artists and religious groups regularly push the limits of what's allowed?the party retains a firm grasp on the tools of repression. But it deploys them only when it feels directly threatened. In 1992, when a former trumpet player and grain clerk named Li Hongzhi first mingled the tenets of Buddhism, Taoism and traditional Qigong exercises to create Falun Gong, the party took no notice, even when he published books, sold videotapes and lectured to mass gatherings. By some estimates his organization grew...