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...When a truck driver is not eating rice, he's eating diesel.' ZHANG YANCHAO, Chinese truck driver, on inhaling exhaust fumes while waiting in long lines to fill up amid chronic fuel shortages...
Zhang Yanchao, a Chinese truck driver, on inhaling fumes while waiting in long lines to fill up amid chronic fuel shortages...
Reports of Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad fill Adnan and Noora Awadi with envy and nostalgia. The young couple--whose names have been changed, since they fear reprisals if quoted in the media--fled to the Jordanian capital, Amman, in the summer of 2006 and are yearning to go back to their leafy street in al-Yarmouk, a middle-class neighborhood in Baghdad. Noora, 28, misses their modest one-story home so much, she is sentimental even about its defects. "The sink in the kitchen is cracked, there are termites everywhere, and sometimes in the summer we can smell...
Despite several campaigns over the past 20 years to create a program in Asian-American studies, Harvard remains without a single full-time professor in the field. But while this gap may take time to fill given the recent downturn in humanities faculty hiring, improving Harvard’s pedagogical offerings in Asian American studies would be far easier. While we support the creation of an Asian American studies track for secondary concentrators in East Asian studies—a move that seems increasingly likely—the creation of such a secondary field would open up the door...
...unusually wide range of issues, and just announced that he's a Mormon to a nation that might not otherwise have known or even cared. Though as smooth as corn syrup on the outside, preacherman Huckabee is low on cash, light on organization and may not be able to fill the pews in New Hampshire the way he did in Iowa. And then there's Thompson, who has not found the transition from Hollywood's low-lit soundstages to politics' brighter lights as forgiving as many had hoped. Staffers have fled his campaign in horror throughout the fall, complaining that...