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Hong Kong people's fear of China has been real, but it has been mostly out of ignorance about the country itself. The people in Hong Kong are getting ready to dispel this prejudice once and for all with integration. After 1997, the sort of brutal, uncompromising consumer modernism that has hung over generations of Hong Kong people as a result of a century of colonial laissez-faire will conflict with and subsequently conquer China's political culture. Economic reform promises a new (and better) China because the market will force China into a reasonable discourse with the rest...
According to Nathan, Sager's research helped to dispel the widely-held belief among scientists that genetic information is only transmitted through genes in the nucleus. In 1963 she published an article showing that genetic information is passed through genes residing on organelles in the cytoplasm as well, he said...
...Every day, in every way, Cambridge is a safer city," reads the introduction to the report, which was compiled to dispel fear and lead to "intelligent problem solving approaches...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) tried to dispel that popular characterization Saturday through a day-long conference, "Public Policy and Community Service: A Partnership," which explored the working relationship between government policies and community service ventures...
Moving into the center pavilion, Gates shows off what will be the library. A mammoth carved wooden dome hangs just above the floor, waiting to be raised into the cupola. (I wonder: Does this grand chamber dispel my fear that he will relegate print to museum status? Or inadvertently confirm it?) He has hired a New York rare-books dealer to stock the library for him. His current reading is eclectic. "On a recent trip to Italy," he says, "I took the new Stalin biography, a book about Hewlett-Packard, Seven Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass...