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...years ago, tattoos were taboo for nice boys and girls. Today, John, a piercing-and-tattoo shop in Shanghai, does a thriving business supplying body art. "Some of our customers are suit-wearing types straight from the office," says Xing Haisong, owner of John. "Everyone has a wild nature in their heart, and now they feel more free to express it." Dad will be so impressed...
...incubation period for SARS is 14 days. The last civets were taken from the wild-animal markets on Jan. 6. By Jan. 20, if no new human cases emerge, we will have a very good indication if Yi, and the Guangdong government, made the right call. --With reporting by Jodi Xu/Guangzhou
Zhong was the only one in that room with the clout to make the call. The situation was simple: the wild-animal business in Guangdong was estimated to be worth anywhere from $100 million to $200 million a year; the economic impact of another SARS outbreak, however, was immeasurable. Zhong called on Jan. 4 and later that day an order was issued to launch a campaign to eradicate civets from the province's farms and markets. By the next morning, said Peng Shangde, deputy director of the Guangdong Forestry Department, "we were staffed and the trucks were rolling...
...Islamist extremists and senior military officers who feel Musharraf has already gone too far in appeasing the White House. Khan's travel has been restricted, and even inside Pakistan, he is always accompanied by two military officers. He rarely leaves his Islamabad mansion except to venture out to feed wild monkeys that swing down in the nearby forest. Officials in Washington meanwhile cross their fingers that Musharraf can and will make sure that with Khan sealed away, Pakistan's nuclear giveaway is over...
DIED. INGRID THULIN, 77, severe, worldly Swedish actress, who lent her grave glamour to eight Ingmar Bergman films; of cancer; in Stockholm. The cool blond projected a knowing pessimism in Bergman's Wild Strawberries and The Magician, desperate longing in Winter Light and The Silence, and a mutilating self-hatred in Cries and Whispers. Though her one Hollywood film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was a flop, she shone as a soulful socialist in Alain Resnais's La Guerre Est Finie and as a Nazi-era matriarch in Luchino Visconti's The Damned...