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...Party control over religion might be relaxing. But given the party's history of infiltrating seemingly safe social networks, it is likely that those house churches are no more beyond government control than are Internet search engines or chat rooms. In a country where politically incorrect websites are routinely shut down and the government uses text messages as warnings against public demonstrations and has a history of using neighbors to spy on one another, can Chinese Christians really think that Big Brother isn't watching them pray as well? John Chi Fort Lee, New Jersey...
Telomerase production is shut off in healthy cells, preventing division. Cancer cells often find a way to turn telomerase back on, allowing an uncontrolled division of cells. In order to treat a variety of cancers, researchers are currently investigating drugs that target telomerase...
...benefited from the high price of oil, the costs of housing and many basic commodities have risen noticeably since the president's election. Ahmadinejad has also unnerved young Iranians by reviving some social restrictions and imposing a more Islamic atmosphere on university campuses. In recent months, the government has shut down two publications, sporadically raided illegal satellite-TV dishes and promoted measures to enforce more conservative forms of Islamic dress. Maryam, 32, a physician's assistant, thinks things will get worse: "It's clear he's going to close newspapers and act like a radical...
...Shut Up & Sing ricochets from the 2003 fracas to the 2005 recording of their new CD and up to this summer. It reveals the pressure on the group not only to keep their families together during the controversy but to come up with an album that will appeal to fans beyond their depleted core of country fans. The album did go to Number 1, the Chicks did make the cover of TIME , and instead of making the rounds of the Southern stations that wouldn?t play their stuff, they appeared on satellite radio with a clearly smitten Howard Stern...
...Shut Up & Sing will play in the heartland - or, for that matter, whether an old leftie like me would have been as charmed by the film if I didn?t share the group?s political sentiments. I?d like to think I?d respect their gumption and be charmed by their perseverance. The movie ends in June 2006, when the Chicks are back at the Shepherd?s Bush Empire, the scene of the crime, with everyone wondering what incendiary remark Natalie will make this time. Let?s just say she replayed one of her greatest hits...