[{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"409","ar_id":"2003828043","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-12-06","ar_head":"\u2018Miracles\u2019 and controversies in Notre Dame\u2019s renaissance","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"The more than five-year reconstruction of Notre Dame cathedral has featured some near-miraculous recoveries, as well as several controversies. 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It\u2019s an affair that\u2019s at turns melancholy, biting and grandly theatrical, an aria for a once in a generation star.Reality is of little consequence on t","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/12\/06\/2003828044","photo":{"ar_id":"2003828044","ph_attr":"Photos: AP","ph_cap":"Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in a scene from Maria<\/i>.","ph_fpath":"2024\/12\/06","ph_fname":"P14-241206-337.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/12\/06\/P14-241206-337.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/12\/06\/thumbs\/P14-241206-337.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Leanne Italie","ar_views":"66","ar_id":"2003828045","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-12-06","ar_head":"Demure, sanewashing, standalone \u2018staches, sourdough: Let\u2019s move on in 2025!","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"We\u2019ve demure-d our way through this year. We\u2019ve played passenger princess. We\u2019ve baked enough sourdough to cover the world with our bubbly starters. 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I concur, and the end of the week sees me at Nowhere Taipei Mexican Bistro (Nowhere Taipei \u58a8\u897f\u54e5\u9910\u9152\u9928) in Datong District (\u5927\u540c). 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A Japanese artist who goes by the name Lito carves these delicate designs on fallen leaves, giving life back to them.The world of Lito\u2019s delicate art, which he began in 2020 and posts on so","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/12\/05\/2003827985","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827985","ph_attr":"Photo: AP \t","ph_cap":"Japanese leaf-cutting artist, who goes by the name Lito, shows his work titled: Wait a second! 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Though way down from the heady days of Taiwanese investments in China two decades ago, a few hundred thousand Taiwanese continue ","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/12\/03\/2003827864","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827864","ph_attr":"Photo: AP","ph_cap":"Tesla CEO Elon Musk, left, in April meets with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing.","ph_fpath":"2024\/12\/03","ph_fname":"p13-241203-301.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/12\/03\/p13-241203-301.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/12\/03\/thumbs\/p13-241203-301.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Michael Segalov","ar_views":"505","ar_id":"2003827865","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-12-03","ar_head":"Meet the neuroscientist who believes life could be eternal","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Elizabeth Hughes Gossett shouldn\u2019t have survived beyond 11, the age at which she developed type 1 diabetes. Born in Albany, New York, Gossett received her diagnosis in 1918 when diabetes had no known treatment. Tragically, her life expectancy was just a matter of months. Her parents desperately sear","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/12\/03\/2003827865","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827865","ph_attr":"Photo: AFP","ph_cap":"The bas-relief Children of the Brain <\/i>in pictured in July at the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital in Montreal, Canada.","ph_fpath":"2024\/12\/03","ph_fname":"p13-241203-315.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/12\/03\/p13-241203-315.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/12\/03\/thumbs\/p13-241203-315.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Michael Turton","ar_views":"1036","ar_id":"2003827810","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-12-02","ar_head":"Notes from Central Taiwan: Taiwan urgently needs a national labor plan","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Last week, the government rejected a petition to amend the law that would allow permanent residents a path to citizenship. This was widely expected, but it came amid a flurry of negative trends about the future of the nation\u2019s labor force. There was much ironic commentary on the juxtaposition of tha","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/12\/02\/2003827810","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827810","ph_attr":"Photo: Yang Ya-min, Taipei Times","ph_cap":"People work in a factory in this undated photo. Most sectors of Taiwan\u2019s economy are short on workers, which is why industry is calling for more migrant workers.","ph_fpath":"2024\/12\/02","ph_fname":"P13-241202-003.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/12\/02\/P13-241202-003.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/12\/02\/thumbs\/P13-241202-003.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Han Cheung","ar_views":"859","ar_id":"2003827765","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-12-01","ar_head":"Taiwan in Time: The twin bank car heists","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Dec 2 to Dec 8 It was the biggest heist in Taiwanese history at that time. In the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1982, two masked men armed with M16 assault rifles knocked out the driver of a United World Chinese Commercial Bank (\u4e16\u83ef\u9280\u884c) security van, making away with NT$14 million (worth about NT$30 mi","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/12\/01\/2003827765","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827765","ph_attr":"Photo courtesy of National Central Library","ph_cap":"The Central Daily News on May 20, 1983 reports on the solving of the United World Chinese Commercial Bank robbery.","ph_fpath":"2024\/12\/01","ph_fname":"p13-241201-solved.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/12\/01\/p13-241201-solved.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/12\/01\/thumbs\/p13-241201-solved.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"960","ar_id":"2003827720","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-30","ar_head":"Feces, vomit offer clues to how dinosaurs rose to rule Earth","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"Feces, vomit and fossilized food from inside stomachs have provided new clues into how dinosaurs rose to dominate Earth, a new study revealed on Wednesday.Scientists have discovered plenty about dinosaurs \u2014 particularly about how they vanished off the face of the planet 66 millions years ago.But \u201cwe","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/30\/2003827720","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827720","ph_attr":"Photo: AP","ph_cap":"This illustration provided by Marcin Ambrozik shows plant-eating dinosaurs in Poland during the Early Jurassic period.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/30","ph_fname":"P13-241130-304.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/30\/P13-241130-304.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/30\/thumbs\/P13-241130-304.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"","ar_views":"926","ar_id":"2003827721","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-30","ar_head":"Swedish gangs recruiting kids as contract killers","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"\u201cBro, I can\u2019t wait for my first dead body,\u201d wrote an 11-year-old boy on Instagram in Sweden, where gangs recruit children too young to be prosecuted as contract killers on chat apps.\u201cStay motivated, it\u2019ll come,\u201d answered his 19-year-old contact. He went on to offer the child 150,000 kronor (US$13,68","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/30\/2003827721","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827721","ph_attr":"Photo: EPA-EFE\r\n","ph_cap":"Children on Nov. 17 look at the shop window of the Nordisk Kompaniet department store during the launch of the company\u2019s annual Christmas display in Stockholm, Sweden. Gangs in Sweden are recruiting children as young as 11 to commit violent crimes because they can\u2019t be prosecuted.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/30","ph_fname":"P13-241130-301.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/30\/P13-241130-301.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/30\/thumbs\/P13-241130-301.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Ami Barnes","ar_views":"931","ar_id":"2003827662","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-29","ar_head":"Raindrops, rivers and reservoirs","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"The Mountains to Sea National Greenway (\u5c71\u6d77\u5733\u570b\u5bb6\u7da0\u9053) draws its name from the idea that each hiker starting at the summit of Jade Mountain (\u7389\u5c71) and following the trail to the coast is like a single raindrop. Together, many raindrops form life and prosperity-bringing waterways.Replicating a raindrop\u2019s jou","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/29\/2003827662","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827662","ph_attr":"Photo: Ami Barnes","ph_cap":"Lover\u2019s Bridge stretches from Dapu Lakeside Park, where free camping is available, to Dapu Visitor Information Station.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/29","ph_fname":"P13-241129-Gc.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/29\/P13-241129-Gc.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/29\/thumbs\/P13-241129-Gc.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Mark Kenndey\r\n","ar_views":"422","ar_id":"2003827663","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-29","ar_head":"Daniel Craig is a revelation in \u2018Queer,\u2019 a trippy tale of longing","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"One of the first real signs that Queer is going to be an unconventional movie is when Daniel Craig in a linen suit saunters through Mexico City during the early \u201850s and the soundtrack blasts a song by Nirvana.It\u2019s a pretty nifty way to explain this story of a man unmoored by time, geography and him","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/29\/2003827663","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827663","ph_attr":"Photo: AP","ph_cap":"Daniel Craig, left, and Drew Starkey in a scene from Queer<\/i>.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/29","ph_fname":"P14-241129-319.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/29\/P14-241129-319.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/29\/thumbs\/P14-241129-319.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Martin Pengelly","ar_views":"374","ar_id":"2003827664","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-29","ar_head":"Of bank robbers, kidnappers and killers: inside the FBI\u2019s early hunt for gangsters","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"John Oller\u2019s new book tells how the FBI took down John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde and other celebrity criminals of the 1930s, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt waged his \u201cwar on crime.\u201d In prose fast as an Essex-Terraplane getaway car, Oller recounts and deconstructs the myth","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/29\/2003827664","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827664","ph_attr":"Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons","ph_cap":"Bonnie and Clyde in a photo from around 1932\u201333 that was found by police at an abandoned hideout.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/29","ph_fname":"p14-241129-Bonnieclyde.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/29\/p14-241129-Bonnieclyde.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/29\/thumbs\/p14-241129-Bonnieclyde.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By Courtney Donovan Smith \u77f3\u6771\u6587","ar_views":"546","ar_id":"2003827601","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-28","ar_head":"Donovan\u2019s Deep Dives: Taiwan\u2019s fragile reliance on global supply chains","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"The post-World War II, post-Cold War system of globalized free trade led by the US looks increasingly insecure, a system that Taiwan is deeply reliant on. Taiwan is a mid-sized maritime trading power that punches well above its weight economically. In the second quarter, trade in goods and services ","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/28\/2003827601","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827601","ph_attr":"Photo: Reuters","ph_cap":"Stranded container ship Ever Given<\/i>, one of the world\u2019s largest container ships, after it ran aground, in March 2021.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/28","ph_fname":"P13-241128-315.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/28\/P13-241128-315.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/28\/thumbs\/P13-241128-315.jpg"}},{"ar_sbhdtease":"","ar_byline":"By James Baron","ar_views":"438","ar_id":"2003827602","ar_sbhdbody":"","ar_section":"Features","ar_pubdate":"2024-11-28","ar_head":"Book review: Taiwan and Europe: A blossoming partnership?","dp_urlname":"feat","ar_desc":"So much has been written about burgeoning ties between Europe and Taiwan in recent years that a clear, concise book dedicated to the subject is long overdue. As part of a series titled Taiwan and World Affairs, this short volume by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy has plugged the gap in impressive fashion. Draw","ar_url":"News\/feat\/archives\/2024\/11\/28\/2003827602","photo":{"ar_id":"2003827602","ph_attr":"","ph_cap":"Partners in Peace: Why Europe and Taiwan Matter to Each Other<\/i>, by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy.","ph_fpath":"2024\/11\/28","ph_fname":"p14-241128-PinP cover.jpg","ph_url":"images\/2024\/11\/28\/p14-241128-PinP cover.jpg","ph_url_thumbs":"images\/2024\/11\/28\/thumbs\/p14-241128-PinP cover.jpg"}}]