Web prowl

Various papers and presentations on the Rise of Asia and its Implications from the Eight Annual Global Development Conference held in Beijing last January are available online. Professor Conrado Dayrit's paper on the potential of coconut oil as cure for HIV/AIDS is available online here.Zhang Ziyi and Liu Ye (of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Curse of the Golden Flower) were classmates at the Beijing Theater University before they both became famous and there's a video of them performing a skit back thenduring their college days here. From Time, here's what to do when your spouse is hotter than you.