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...explains, for example, the importance of that Nixon-Zhou handshake and a later one between Nixon and Mao that appears on the book's cover: the Chinese feared a replay of their humiliating snub at the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and Korea, when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spurned Zhou's proffered hand...
...Simon, one of the two boys from a charity home, works as a baggage handler near Heathrow Airport. He has wed twice. The first marriage, to Yvonne, produced five children; in the second, to Vianessa, he become a foster parent. Simon's and Paul's histories suggest that they weren't schooled in ambition. "I'm very laid back," he tells Apted. "As [my wife] always says, if I go any further back I'll fall over." Paul, the second charity case, went to Australia and worked as a laborer. He married Susan, a hairdresser, and had two kids...
...which provides detailed information on changes you can make - everything from what foods to eat to how much you should sleep - based upon your answers to a series of questions. The tools also can help teach the public how to weigh risk factors, said University of Pennsylvania Prof. Dean Foster, co-author of another calculator. "How good is excercise or how bad is smoking?" Foster asks. "Would you walk a mile for a Camel? Each and every Camel? If you do so, smoking is OK. But if you only walk a half mile for each cigarette, it is hazardous...
...HUPA already has plenty of funds in its coffers. In 2005, then-University President Lawrence H. Summers established a $3 million fund along with the organization. The AIDS Innovative Research Fund is specifically aimed to foster interdisciplinary HIV/AIDS research in Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania, four African countries devastated by AIDS...
...want in. The question is: who gives the best tours of Harvard’s campus? The drug-addled Crimson Key Society or the total weirdos of Hahvahd Tours? Obviously, the answer is us. Though we’ve only given one tour before—to our foster parents on junior foster parents weekend—our competitors’ shortcomings are so obvious that we can’t help but intervene. These idiots think that just because they’re taking folks around a seventeenth century institution,- it’s fine to use tour technology...