Word: fang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fang Lizhi was not exactly a household name outside China until he was invited to dine with President George Bush. Then a series of missteps turned a social occasion into a diplomatic cause celebre. Using crude police muscle, the Chinese government physically barred Fang, China's most famous dissident, from attending the Texas barbecue that Bush gave at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel to salute Chinese dignitaries at the end of an otherwise friendly visit to Beijing. The invitation infuriated the Chinese government, Fang's manhandling offended the U.S., and the Bush Administration was left with egg foo yung...
...Fang flap began innocently two weeks ago, when he received an elegantly engraved invitation from the U.S. embassy to attend Bush's brisket, beans and beer supper. Fang, an astrophysicist expelled from the Communist Party and fired from his job as a university vice president in 1987, was startled; by demanding democracy and calling socialism "the scourge of humanity in this century," the outspoken scientist has gone further than any other dissident in angering Chinese officials...
After being weighed, the snakes are dumped in a great braided mass into chest-high octagonal white plywood stockades, called pits. There they can be safely ogled and photographed in all their slithering, tongue-flicking, fang- baring, rattling, coiling, head-rearing glory. The Western diamondback, Crotalus (castanet) atrox (fearful), is indeed a horrible-wonderful creature. Its head is broad and flat, and its close-set, silver gray eyes with black pupils seem fixed and furious. A dry, cool skin of interlocking gray-and-brown diamond pattern leads to a pyramid of hard keratin nubs, acquired at the tail after successive...
...Fang Chien, who teaches a section of Historical Study A-14, "Tradition and Transformation in East Asia: Japan," said she stressed the opportunity for peer review at the WritingCenter. Chien said she is "hoping to get morethought, more thinking ahead, [and] more planningabout the argument" in her student's papers...
...offer a childhood that is more than just chocolate plus toys, to teach the child to be courteous, collective- oriented and self-reliant. That way, they will not become little emperors." What are parents to do when a child throws a tantrum? Do not give in to blackmail, says Fang. "Let the child cry all night. By the next day / everything will be forgotten." At least until Baby learns to throw things...