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Staebler and company were aglow in part bacause the Crimson's 15-3, 15-12, 15-10 win came after an odd encounter with the men from Rhode Island earlier this season. At a tournament at Vassar earlier this season, the Crimson played a rough game against a less-than-stellar Concordia. Throughout the game, the roger Williams players, waiting for their game to begin, sat at courtside laughing at the Crimson's poor play...
...pupils, looks more like a character from the Lil' Orphan Annie comic strip than one of his menacing and intimidating characters. A native Texan, Jones charms with his Southwestern courtesies and genuinely ingratiating accent. He is impeccably dressed and groomed; his hair is cut close and his skin is aglow. Sitting at the table eating his Eggs Benedict and drinking his milk, Mr. Jones looks like the sensitive...
...open something in America, you're doing it wrong. They've made everything easy. That's how a free economy works." Manek changes his name to Mike and even asks his wife to use his new name in public. The reader understands Manek as the wonderstruck prototypical immigrant, eyes aglow in the land of plenty. This characterization becomes particularly difficult to digest when taking into account that Manek and Feroza, as well as Sidhwa, belong to the notoriously wealthy, sophisticated and Westernized Parsi community in Pakistan...
...report to Science, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine say they insert the gene, which directs production of a light- emitting enzyme called luciferase, into tissue samples taken from TB patients. Within two hours, the cultures are aglow. Various drugs are then introduced. If the particular strain of TB is susceptible, the light dims and goes out. If the TB is resistant, the culture keeps shining...
What a difference a year makes. In March 1990 Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu came away all aglow from a meeting with President Bush in California. The two leaders claimed to have forged the basis for a new "global partnership," and Japan seemed ready to play a role in world politics corresponding to its ever expanding economic power. Kaifu affirmed his commitment: "I am determined that Japan must be one of the countries to bear the responsibility for maintaining and strengthening international order...