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...this, after all, is the life she bargained for. Two and a half years ago, Chen was a newly minted college grad just entering the working-stiff world as a credit analyst in the Hong Kong branch of a foreign bank. That was before she decided that her brother, teen idol Edison Chen, was having way more fun than she was. Meetings were held, a contract was signed?and Chen popped out of the Hong Kong star-making microwave like a sugar-coated pineapple bun. Her first single, Future Tense, was released to local radio stations last month...
...review is an integral part of what cadets are learning. While cadets seem to come perilously close to dropping the large planks used for weight training on their heads, Captain Richard K. Berube, who is in charge of recruiting for the Paul Revere battalion, MIT’s ROTC branch, takes time away from observing physical training to speak surprisingly frankly about his battalion...
...Harrison Branch, 55, a professor of photography at Oregon State University in Corvallis, says the two classes he has taken at the CIA's Greystone campus have given him a solid grounding in food preparation. He cooks for friends and family, does some catering on the side and has contemplated switching to a career in culinary arts. He learned how to prepare such meals as grilled shrimp with tomato and basil coulis, veal scallopini with asparagus and herb risotto and pork medallions. "This was the kind of experience that you could just immerse yourself in totally," Branch says...
...Waco was nothin' compared to Colorado City," an antipolygamy activist says, while the Branch Davidian compound burns. Independent gubernatorial candidate Richard Mahoney suggests Republican Matt Salmon cannot crack down on the town's polygamist sect because he is Mormon...
...stressed the need for education to become a central—instead of peripheral—issue at research institutions everywhere, so that it can receive the attention and resources it needs in order to become a more viable and respected branch of research...