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...unusual, particularly for a communist country, but some form of faith or superstition weaves its way through every element of Chinese life. The new Shanghai stock exchange is built in the shape of a hollowed square to help trap positive energy, a nod to the ancient geomantic rituals of feng shui. And members of China's new middle class are embracing both state-of-the-art technology to transform their economy and 5,000-year-old superstitions to support their lives. "It turns out that the majority of businesspeople in China believe in the god of fortune," sighs...
...idea of how their nukes work. Burrowing deeper into the contents of a pair of top-secret reports on China's alleged nuclear espionage, the New York Times reports that Beijing has indeed put some of those stolen secrets to use -- on a small, mobile ICBM called the Dong Feng-31, expected to be ready for deployment as early as 2002 or 2003. "The DF-31 ICBM will give China a major strike capability that will be difficult to counterattack at any stage of its operation," a 1996 Air Force intelligence report stated. And they got its brains...
...meeting). Other Houses think locally and host multi-House events; Leverett, Dunster and Lowell join in an annual Tri-House Formal. And then there are those committees that would keep their resident blood pure by taking pains to restrict attendance to House members. Leverett HoCo treasurer Matthew T. Feng '01 bitterly recalls when word leaked of their upcoming Taco Bell study break, "Miscellaneous athletes with athletic appetites and teammates in tote" arrived to devour many of the 800 tacos. Although Feng remembers that "lots of tacos did mean lots of love," he confides to FM that Leverett's next Taco...
Subjecting these cells from Marilyn's spleen to the sort of genetic wizardry unavailable during the animal's lifetime, Hahn and her colleagues, including Feng Gao, husband George Shaw and Paul Sharp, set about amplifying, sequencing and analyzing Marilyn's virus. Except in the rarest cases, chimps like the sooty mangabeys never show AIDS-like symptoms. Even so, when the researchers compared the viral DNA with the three known types of SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus), they found it had a substantially different genetic makeup. And when they compared Marilyn's genetic makeup with that of other chimps, they determined that...
Other Crimson results included senior ScottMuoio's win in the 5000-meter, co-captain JoeLin's third-place finish in the mile, sophomoreArthur Feng's second-place showing in the longjump, junior Dominic Patillo's third place finishin the 800-meter, and freshman David Grimm'spersonal-best 15.24 meter throw in the 35-poundweight throw...