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...meet with a silver medal for Jonathan Horton on the high bars. And after all the build up surrounding the American and Chinese rivalry, on the mats, the gymnasts are still gymnasts and the coaches are still coaches, no matter what country they call home. When China's Cheng Fei came off the floor in tears after a fall in the event final, Chow just did what came naturally. He gave her a hug. "Everybody should perform their best because they are competitors," he said. "I just tried to give her some comfort, because she really felt bad about herself...
...point is not that Asian Americans attempt suicide any more or less often than other ethnic groups. Rather, Sue's findings suggest there may be an important difference in the risk factors that lead to their attempts. By mining the data with his lead investigator Janice Cheng, a U.C. Davis psychology graduate student, Sue found that family conflict was a significant predictor of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts among Asian Americans, independent of depression, low income or gender. The risk of suicide among Asian Americans with family problems was triple the risk of other Asian Americans, even factoring for depression...
...analysts expect, Taiwan doesn't offer Paraguay the full $71 million, by going, Ma risks being seen as continuing the practice of bribing impoverished nations in Latin America and Africa for their support. "Ma should not expose himself to this kind of open blackmail," says Loh I-Cheng, Taiwan's former ambassador to South Africa...
After a pair of punts, Harvard struck on three consecutive drives with a 33-yard pass from Pizzotti to Luft, a one-yard plunge by sophomore Cheng Ho, and a 15-yard screen pass to sophomore Mike Cook after a failed fake punt by the Bulldogs. Only a fourth-down stop of a Pizzotti sneak at the goal line on the final play of the first half left Yale with anything to play for at halftime, trailing...
...Part of the problem is money. Until recently local governments were expected to carry up to half of the expenses for local education, says Joseph Cheng, a political science professor at City University of Hong Kong. That created an incentive to skimp. "In the interior provinces, governmental supervision is very lax," he says. Education "is not a priority area. You can cut corners." Even now, provincial economic plans list yearly targets for the reduction of unsafe schools, illustrating the extent to which low school budgets have compromised safety. "It's a widely recognized problem," Cheng says...