Word: chia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bilingual aide at Horace Mann Middle School, says new arrivals have an easier time now than when he arrived in Wausau in 1979. "I struggled more, but I'm moving up O.K. I'm getting used to the life-style of this country," he says. Wausau fifth-grader Chia Vang arrived five years ago and is currently fluent in English but still finds it tough to fit in at school: "I try to make friends with Americans, but it's hard because sometimes I'm shy to ask them...
...handsome faculty salaries offered by top U.S. universities, and has even started to lure some prominent non-Asians. To direct a new $4.5 million environmental-studies program, for instance, Hong Kong recruited Gary Heinke from the University of Toronto. "We're not shy," laughs Hong Kong university president Chia-Wei Woo, whose resume includes a stint as president of San Francisco State University. "When we see someone we want, we can be very sticky...
...hand-held security device, which will be offered at the Harvard Coop beginning Monday, makes a would-be attacker look like a Chia pet, according to the product's Boston distributor...
...Chia, 49, was a member of Parliament representing the opposition Barisan Sosialis (Socialist Front) when he was arrested for allegedly advocating armed struggle against the government of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Over the years, Singapore officials offered to free Chia, who has never been tried, if he would renounce violence. But he refused, maintaining that he had never espoused it in the first place. Last May Chia was sent into a bizarre internal exile on Sentosa, a tiny tourist island just off Singapore's main isle. He is * allowed visitors and free run of the island, where...
...instant communications, when the freeing of Mandela is viewed by millions of people, public pressure can influence some repressive regimes. Human-rights activists believe Singapore improved the conditions of Chia Thye Poh's confinement out of fear that when South Africa released Mandela, world attention would focus on the remaining long-termers. Still, other governments seem impervious to criticism. "Each country is a separate case," notes Richard Reoch, information director of London-based Amnesty International. There are limits too to how hard foreign governments will press allies on human-rights issues. The U.S., for example, remained mute over the February...