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...Chang says she believed she had "a personal obligation to write an honest history of Chinese America, to dispel the offensive stereotypes that had long permeated the U.S. news and entertainment media." She traces the lineage of such attitudes through 150 years of Chinese immigration. (America's first female Chinese arrival, Afong Moy, was brought to New York to serve as a living curio in a museum exhibition .) The stories of successive waves of Chinese newcomers who were witnesses and participants in America's most dynamic moments?the Gold Rush, construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, Reconstruction, the civil-rights movement...
...weekend away with Grandma or Grandpa is also a natural way to dispel stereotypes about aging. "Many kids today aren't around older people on a regular basis," says Cady Goldfield, a spokeswoman for Elderhostel, which offers almost 200 intergenerational summer programs. "To see Grandpa rappelling down a water tower or Grandma hiking up a mountain--better yet, to do it with them--is to see how vital and energetic the current population of grandparents is. It breaks all the rules for the traditional grandparent-grandchild interaction...
...trying to dispel fears that having removed Saddam's regime, U.S. forces are embroiled in a guerrilla war. "I guess the reason I don't use the phrase guerrilla war is because there isn't one," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. The varying groups of resisters "are all slightly different in why they're there and what they're doing." For weeks U.S. commanders have maintained that some of the violence against their forces has been coordinated by Baath Party members, Republican Guard commanders and Fedayeen Saddam operatives who survived the allied push through southern Iraq. U.S. forces conducted Operation...
...Sosa has run into controversy before.? Last season, during the uproar over steroids in baseball, Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly got a big reaction out of Sosa when he suggested to Sosa that the player should be tested for steroids to dispel any rumors of drug use.? Sosa reportedly called Reilly a ?motherf___er? and stormed off.? Some would expect a large controversy over the incident, yet the steroid issue hasn?t dogged Sosa, despite being more of a serious issue than his use of a corked bat (which, on a physics side note, can actually be detrimental...
Many credit unions are also marketing themselves, often for the first time, to dispel notions that they're exclusive to one company's employees. Despite its name, the Boeing Wichita credit union, with its permissive state charter, boasts many members among its 45,000 who are not Boeing employees but rather other workers and residents throughout its territory in eastern Kansas. Last fall the credit union rented billboards in the Wichita area to declare itself BETTER THAN YOUR BANK. In Minneapolis, Affinity Plus recently became an official sponsor of the Minnesota Twins to demonstrate to the community that...