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...reason for the Red Cross’ caution—after all, AIDS used to be spread through blood transfusions—it seems to have gone overboard in trying to prevent a similar tragedy in the future. The form did not allow for vegetarians; it had no blank lines for explanation. Six months was the cutoff. What if someone had lived there for five and a half months and eaten beef every day? The people just shook their heads and ushered me out. Too bad for me: I was proscribed indefinitely from giving blood...
...first photograph shows a tiny girl with a blank, almost intrepid stare ripe with meaning and emotion. The subsequent portraits show Almerisa slowly shedding both the exterior trappings of her homeland and of childhood. In the last photograph, she is coyishly defiant, slouching slightly on the chair with her legs apart and a very knowing expression on her face. She no longer looks the part of a refugee, and she is no longer a child...
...father, a professor, for a Chinese waiter. I've had Chinese Americans and Chinese-in-China talk about me as though I weren't there: "I had a cousin from the south who looked like her, but her hair is disgusting." On book tours, Caucasians will often ask point-blank, "Why would you choose to be Chinese when you have all the privileges of being white?" Given my family and the era in which I grew up, I don't know that I had a choice...
...self-absorbed as her tiny dog Richie. She cannot endure the pain, loneliness and loss that follow the accident. He becomes similarly needy as a result of a mishap that is, at first, more comic than desperate. Their story ends with her staring silently out the window at the blank wall that once held her picture, 10 stories tall, while he snoozes...
...reports Harvard's financial aid office has received from the federal government this year, only two had left the question blank, Donahue said...