Word: chien
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...Gardner?s first bone of contention involves an incident that took place on the morning of December 29, 1968. PCF-44 was in a small canal just off the Co Chien River. They had been probing the waterway with another Swift boat on a minor Operation SEALORDS raid and on their way back had come under enemy fire. ?We went into a dangerous area that had numerous hooches and sampans,? Wasser recalled. ?The enemy was thick. Once we got in the canal we took a lot of small arms fire, followed by mortar. Our adrenaline was racing; we went right...
...young men, showing that 28 of them were HIV positive. Officially, Taiwan has only 5,251 people living with HIV out of a population of 23 million. "The department used to think it had underestimated the nation's infected population by 10%-15%," says Health Minister Chen Chien-jen. The tests on the party goers, Chen says, suggest the real HIV figures may be considerably higher...
...native Taiwanese, I understand how prominent Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang felt as he showed his love for his home farming village of Wuri by depicting the dramatic changes to it. Though I have been living here for 23 years and am not part of the diaspora, I can relate my own boyhood to Chang's photos of rural Taiwan. Life has improved greatly, and what surrounded me back in the old days is all long gone. Through Chang's black-and-white photos, a brief history of Taiwan is on display. Roger Cheng Taipei...
Many migrant workers also use black-market currency traders. Known as hawala in the Middle East, hundi in India and fei chien ("flying money") in China, these unlicensed remittance networks were targeted by the U.S. after 9/11, because some had been used by al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks. The following month the U.S.A. Patriot Act made participating in these networks a felony, and the law has been used more than 20 times against alleged violators...
Professional groups for high-risk specialties are concerned about the loss of people like Palmeri and Peter Chien Jr., a New York University medical student who contemplated orthopedics but is opting for dermatology, a less litigious field. Perhaps even more troubling, a quarter of final-year medical students polled said they would not study medicine if they started their education over. Thankfully for his patients, that's a change of attitude Palmeri hasn't shared. --By Amanda Bower