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Largely as a result of sex-selective abortions, Asia today is short of 160 million women. They have disappeared silently over several decades, but their absence can be seen in classrooms filled with boys, in huddles of bachelors on city streets and in higher rates of bride trafficking and prostitution elicited by growing numbers of sexually frustrated men
Tommy Barrett is a dreamy-eyed fifth-grader who lives with his parents, twin brothers, two cats and a turtle in San Jose, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley. He’s an honor-roll student who likes math and science and video games.
It’s starting to look like this mission is too tough for anyone.
The fallout from Fukushima continues.
Surely the most eagerly awaited film of the summer, J.J.
At Lake Zoar, near New London, Conn., Sergeant W. E.
“I have to close my restaurant when it gets dark,” complains Ahmad al-Dursi, 43, the owner of a small hamburger joint in Benghazi, the capital of what is called Free Libya.
Itching for a good after-school science experiment?
There was a time–yes, my children, the legends are true–when J.R.R. Tolkien was not cool.
It could be argued that the world does not need a new science, but Laurence J. Peter, a professor of education at the University of Southern California, has invented one.