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...Poor Chinese farmers don't tend to disagree with government officials putting on a hard sell, so Xu's parents relented, allowing her to be sent to a district-level sports school, where she cried for days at the prospect of constantly lifting heavy weights. Xu transferred to Weilun last year, where she now trains six hours a day, six days a week. She sees her parents once a year. During the school year, Xu also attends a couple of hours of class a day, but she admits she's often too tired to pay attention during the evening academic...
...Cellulite is the cottage-cheesy look of the skin above the fat layer many women find on their hips, thighs and derriere. (Men tend not to suffer from this perceived problem because their thicker skin does a better job of covering fat.) Women have resorted to surgery, massage, potions, pills and creams to smooth their skin, resulting in temporary relief at best. So can clothing succeed where more extreme efforts have failed...
TIME: The media tend to typecast people and tell the same stories about them over and over again. Do you find that frustrating...
...winding valleys and steep-sided natural depressions so baffling that one of Shaw's staff recently spent a night lost in it. And for what's under the ground here, in this part of what cave biologist Arthur Clarke calls "the underworld," there are no maps at all. Cavers tend to "look at their feet and not at the walls, so there could be other art work down there," Clarke says as he adjusts his hard hat before going inside. Years of studying the spiders, beetles, aquatic snails and other invertebrates that shun the sunlit world have led Clarke into...
...average yield for money-market funds--a popular parking place for rainy-day reserves--sat at 0.51% two months ago. The rate was 0.68% last week, a difference that would give investors an extra $3.4 billion over the course of a year. Money-market funds tend to yield the federal-funds rate minus expenses (average: 0.50%), which could mean a 1.50% average yield by the end of the year. But that still falls far short of inflation--now at 3%--and the 6% money funds yielded...