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...woman unpacks the rich and terrible secrets of her past, as a young girl in Shanghai growing up amid a plague of sorrows: how her own mother abandoned her and she was married off to an ogreish ne'er-do-well; how they hid in a monastery famous for dragon- well tea while the Japanese invaded Manchuria; how somehow she endured the war, losing friends and children along the way; and how, in the end, indomitable as pain, she escaped China and her husband just five days before the communist takeover...
Students with manual impairments will be able to use the voice-activated Dragon systems developed by Paul G. Bamberg, director of science instruction in continuing education, to enter text into a computer, according to Ellen C. Fanizzi, assistant director...
Look for Cornell supersophomores Kent Manderville and Ryan Hughes (7-16--23), senior Joe Dragon (15-24--39) and Co-Captain Doug Derraugh (16-13--29) to make up for the loss of second-leading scorer Ross Lemon and help a dismal seventh-place team offense break out of the gate. ECAC Rookie of the Year Manderville (11-15--26)--a second-round Flames' selection in 1989--looms as Cornell's greatest scoring threat because of his size, explosive speed and power...
...been a military disaster. The first troops to arrive were ill-equipped and vastly outnumbered by the Iraqi tank army poised in occupied Kuwait. Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division were told to expect to go directly into combat, though they carried nothing more effective against tanks than puny Dragon rockets and risky-to-use TOW missiles...
...Senate ousted the former federal judge last year following bribery allegations. He's now running for the Democratic nomination for Florida secretary of state, advocating casino gambling. His opponents: a newspaper columnist and a former Grand Dragon of the K.K.K...