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...college. Raymond Yang was one of only three Asians in a class of 420 at his high school in East Northport, N.Y. "I always felt like I was between worlds, especially in high school," says Yang, 28, whose parents are Chinese. That interim place felt like his and his alone???until he got to Brown University. When Yang was a freshman in 1995, there were 854 other Asian Americans enrolled?a full 15% of the undergraduate student body. "It was sort of culture shock. I had never met kids like me," he says. "We all grew up feeling the tension...
...posing as an actress in the style of the neorealistic cinema that her father founded; Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington dressed as showgirls falling in love with Italian boys in New York City's Little Italy; Monica Bellucci re-enacting Fellini's La Dolce Vita. The designers' ad campaigns alone???most shot by Steven Meisel?are a lesson in vintage Italian style...
...impose authority were welcomed with restrained enthusiasm by the Soviet Union. According to some Polish government sources, Jaruzelski was pressed by the Soviets to make the move. About a month ago, according to these accounts, he was given an ultimatum by the Kremlin. Soviet representatives told him?and him alone???that the Polish party was no longer in control, that the Sejm (parliament) was running wild, and that if he did not act to restore order, the Warsaw Pact would do it for him. Though Jaruzelski emphasized last week that Poland remained a sovereign state, many people regarded the crackdown...
Lilly and other drug makers can easily meet current demand for insulin by extracting it from the pancreases of cows and pigs. The trouble is that of all diabetics on insulin?some 1.8 million people in the U.S. alone???5% suffer allergic reactions to the animal hormone because it differs ever so slightly from the human variety. It may also cause some of the circulatory problems associated with diabetes. By contrast, virtually every atom of the bacterial product is identical to insulin made in the body, and so should produce few reactions...
...Iranian students seem to have had more impact abroad than at home. This year 100,000 Iranians are studying in other countries?more than 37,000 in the U.S. alone???because there is no room for them at their own universities. Angered and articulate, they have formed a vocal vanguard against the Shah in almost every major city in the world, airing their opposition with slogans in the London subway or demonstrations in Los Angeles, Washington or New York City. Many wear masks when they demonstrate for fear that agents of SAVAK, the heavyhanded Iranian secret police, or authorities...