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Four years, four championships. That’s the collegiate line for Jackie Pangilinan, a senior on the Harvard women’s swimming team. Last Saturday, she notched her fourth Ivy League individual championship with a win in the 200-yard breaststroke. “It was definitely the...
The Pentagon study is certain to be used as ammunition by the China bashers in Congress. "By 2010 China will have almost twice the number of submarines - not the same capability, but almost twice the number of submarines - as the United States," Rep. Tom Allen, D-Maine, warned at a...
While the report's existence owes much to that Washington ice cream cone, there is cause for concern. While China remains pre-occupied by Taiwan, its navy and air force are increasingly expanding their reach in ways that suggest it is flexing its military might beyond that island, which mainland...
Whipping out an unwieldy pocket dictionary midconversation is often embarrassing, but in a place as linguistically complex as China, an English-Chinese dictionary can be indispensable. One solution is PlecoDict, a program for Palm devices and Pocket PCs that includes up to five dictionaries. You can find words by searching...
When Liu Yuan started playing the sax, jazz was still seen as bourgeois and chord charts were hard to come by. Raised by folk-musician parents, he performed with Cui Jian, the father of Chinese rock, before dedicating himself--under the influences of John Coltrane and Miles Davis--to jazz...