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...study Zhang conducted in 2006, and the enduring discrimination homosexuals face in China prevents many men from getting tested for HIV/AIDS or seeking treatment. Only with more understanding and tolerance will efforts to curb the spread of HIV be effective, Zhang said. (Read about Hong Kong's gay pride revolution...
...again. In 1901, Chicago won the right to host the first- ever Midwestern Olympics, in 1904, but lost the Games to its then-rival St. Louis after that city threatened to host a competing event. For many here, the prospect of hosting the Olympics is a point of significant pride, evidence that America's third-largest city has shed its image as a blue-collar also-ran to the more urbane coastal centers. And the city's mayor, Richard M. Daley, clearly views winning the Games as a capstone of his nearly two-decade rule. "The Olympics...
...while away the boredom, a few exiled young Afghans began picking up cricket from Pakistanis. Abid was among them, and an unlikely source of national pride was born. Smashed concrete is all that remains of the Kacha Gari pitch now, and the boundary is marked only by lumps of piled-up dirt. But to many Afghans, it is a deeply moving place. On a recent return visit, Abid knelt down, kissed the ground and said, as if still astonished, "I started cricket here...
...there ever been a work of literature that couldn't be improved by adding zombies? Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the premise of which explains itself: the Bennet family lives in a rural English village, where their primary concerns are a) marrying off their five daughters, and b) defending themselves against wave after wave of the remorseless, relentless walking dead. Time magazine book critic Lev Grossman chatted with Grahame-Smith about the challenge of updating a classic...
...Tell me where the idea to add zombies to Pride and Prejudice came from. Was there a Eureka moment? Actually the credit for this belongs to my editor, Jason Rekulak. He had had this sort of long-gestating idea of doing some kind of mashup, he called it. He didn't know what it was, he just knew there was something to it. He had these lists, and on one side he had a column of War and Peace and Crime and Punishment and Wuthering Heights and whatever public domain classic literature you can think of. And on the other...