Chinese gov't appoints new science, social science officials Xinhua, China - ... of Sciences. Wu Yin, 56, has been appointed vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , replacing Jiang Lansheng.

Hand-holding couples may be protected from pain and stress, a study shows.

Pennsylvania's Amish began to bury the victims of this week's schoolroom massacre on Thursday amid renewed concern that their private, rural way of life was yielding to modernity.