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...week. They complain of headaches and stomach pains, caused by exhaustion and strain. "They are really suffering from depression," says Chia-ling Kuo, a research associate in anthropology at the City University of New York. "They are not really in the mainstream. Their joy is Sunday dim sum and Chinese movies. Most people in Chinatown don't ever have a chance to speak to an American...
...kitchen are rusted cast-iron stoves, muffin tins in the ovens, wire whisks the size of basketballs suspended from a rack. From down a dim passageway comes the sound of boots crunching glass underfoot, and out into the light appears a rat patrol, four hard hats spreading poison. From the darkest corners the beams of contractors carrying out inspections by flashlight dance around like fireflies...
Given the ingenuity America seems to inspire in its immigrants, the newcomers may give Aoki stiff competition. How long can it be before Benihana is joined by chains with names such as Tacorama, the Piteria, Dim-summery and even Tofusion...
...powers within the power, and they were about as good as you can be at that strange business. There have been stories, of course, about occasional stress backstage, and there may be some new revelations as the books and reminiscences roll out. But it will be hard to dim the luster of these four years, a remarkably long time for three ambitious aides to hang together and successfully support a President...
...would travel in an enormous elliptical orbit three light-years across that would periodically take it farther from the sun than the distance between any known binary stars. Because it has not been identified in the four centuries since astronomers began using telescopes, it must be very small and dim, perhaps a red dwarf with one-third the mass and only one one-thousandth the brilliance of the sun. When it passed through the Oort cloud, it would dislodge a billion or more comets. Muller, searching for an appropriate name for the lethal companion, considered several. But the one that...