STRIKING HARD
“You’ve what?” demanded Mrs. Porter,
placing the hot iron carefully on its stand and turning
a heated face on the head of the family.
“Struck,” repeated Mr....
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W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. H...
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China issued an urgent notice Tuesday ordering stronger controls over unscrupulous pork selling practices amid soaring prices for the country's staple meat.Separately, the Health Ministry reported ...
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China issued an urgent notice Tuesday ordering stronger controls over unscrupulous pork selling practices amid soaring prices for the country's staple meat.Separately, the Health Ministry reported ...
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Authorities have increased arrests on Christian groups operating outside China's sole official government church following a crackdown ordered last month, an overseas monitoring group reported Frid...
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BEIJING, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A leading Chinese government
scholar has made a rare call for the state to consider
pardoning repentant inmates next year when Beijing hosts the
Olympics and marks 30 y...
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China _ the world's leading executioner of prisoners _ should reduce the number of death sentences it carries out but cannot abolish capital punishment altogether, the country's top legal bodies sa...
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BEIJING, Oct 24 (Reuters) - China should pay more attention
to shoring up its product safety supervision network rather
than apportioning blame for recent problems, a senior European
Union officia...
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Click-it or not? The government is looking again at whether children are safer in seat belts when they ride the bus to school, months after a deadly crash in Alabama.The Transportation Department c...
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Lebanese army artillery shelled a Palestinian refugee camp where a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida was holed up Monday, pounding militant hideouts for a second day in the worst eruption...
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Lebanese troops pounded a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery and tank fire for a second day Monday, raising huge palls of smoke as they battled a militant group suspected of ties to al-Qaida i...
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The jagged mountains of Pakistan's tribal belt conceal the passage of Taliban fighters into Afghanistan. Its mud fortresses are perfect for training suicide bombers. And al-Qaida kingpins likely fi...
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Striking Hard
W(illiam) W(ymark) Jacobs
China orders better management of pork markets amid rising prices
