Word: contact
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...Chen considers politics “a very contact-driven profession...
...flag-waving propaganda for the “Proud to be an American” crowd, the film actually has a lot to teach us about other cultures—if the trailer is any indication. It begins in Britain, where, it seems, everything is different. For example, eye contact has different connotations. Here, it’s something to strive for in interviews and avoid on the subway; there, it means you’ve stolen some treasure. Witness two secret agent types stake out a palace gate as Nicholas Cage and his family emerge with a piece...
...first visitors from the People's Republic went to Japan in the early 1980s - but they weren't supposed to stay. China, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, had begun renewing contact with the outside world. Thousands of China's brightest scholars were dispatched to the U.S., Germany and Japan to vacuum up the latest scientific knowledge and take new ideas back home to advance the socialist cause. But the world outside proved too alluring for many students. Chen Jianjun, who arrived in the Japanese city of Kobe on a Chinese government scholarship in 1982, recalls how alien Japan...
Hackers may have perused the Social Security numbers and contact information of prospective Duke Law School applicants when the school’s Web site was illegally accessed last Thursday. Technical administrators working on the site discovered that someone had gained unauthorized access to the Web site, compromising two databases, said Melinda Vaughn, a spokeswoman for the law school. The first database contained the Social Security numbers of about 1,400 potential applicants who requested information from the law school admissions office. The second database held contact information including home addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, as well...
...emotion" since Saturday, when their father strolled into a police station in central London, has taken them "from the height of elation at finding him alive to the depths of despair at the recent stories of fraud and these latest pictures." The statement also said they "want no further contact" with their parents...