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...trip, of course, but the government hasn't issued a statement since the transit stops were announced. Indeed, Beijing's position on Chen has been to have no position: the state-run media hasn't yet mentioned him by name. But Chen's anonymity in Beijing is a stark contrast to his globally more visible role brought on by recent American approval of a sophisticated arms-sales package to Taiwan and the deteriorating state of Sino-U.S. relations. Increasingly the spotlight is on Taiwan?and Chen. For the island's majority, the attention may be unwelcome. The place...
First, please notice the use of pleasantries in the first line of my letter to you. We can't all be expected to know proper etiquette for letter writing, but if you contrast my opening with the way you address me, I think you'll notice a difference...
...evening use of the school's resources on college and career options. And the school plans to open its newly renovated fitness center to the community. In part as a result of these initiatives, 59% of parents said in a 1999 survey that they were satisfied with Stonewall, in contrast...
Traditional chemotherapy compounds are like blunderbusses that kill both malignant and healthy cells indiscriminately--by bombarding tumors with as much cell-destroying chemical as the patient can handle. Angiogenesis inhibitors, by contrast, are smart missiles. Like Gleevec, they belong to a new breed of cancer-fighting agents that grow out of a deep understanding--at the molecular level--of how cancers grow, and are designed to block a particular step along...
...Green - a stern, bearded, and Biblical sort of character - has lived, without duplicity, the life of a robust gnu. This begetting is hard work. The Sultan of Pasha without the silks, he collected all his wives there in the desert, and they share a common life. My friend, by contrast, conducted a symmetrical, binary life covertly - keeping the right hand ignorant of the left hand's adventures. I think, paradoxically, that in his deepest heart, my friend did it because he needed confirmation of his intuition of the essential loneliness of the world. Or else, less gloomily, he operated...