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...Yifang Gong, a student at MIT, and his wife were walking near the school's Nuclear Reactor Laboratory when they were attacked by three men at approximately...

Author: By Olivia A. Radin, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Three Robbed At MIT | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

After being threatened at gun point, Gong gave the assailants his money, jacket and watch...

Author: By Olivia A. Radin, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Three Robbed At MIT | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

Janet Green described her recent visit to Somalia. "I saw children sitting by the side of the road alone, with no parents," she said. "[The situation] is not gong to be fixed by technology alone...

Author: By John Tessitore, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Marchers Support Somalia | 10/9/1992 | See Source »

...alone in our credulity. In China a large percentage of the public visits "Qi Gong" hospitals for diagnosis and treatment by a mystic who never touches them; he merely waves his hands about. If a patient is in a remote location and cannot visit an expert in person, he merely mails a slip of paper with his name written on it, and the practitioner performs both the diagnosis and the cure -- an exotic hand-and-body dance designed to "re-establish the balance of yin and yang" -- from any distance away. Thousands of visitors pour into the Philippine Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Stamp Out Absurd Beliefs | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...emotional anchor for all Zhang's films is Gong Li -- her face a map of cool insurrection, her figure proud and voluptuously Western. But Red Lantern offers other, more exalted orders of ogling. As it plays out its melodrama, it | radiates a ravishing color scheme; it delights in the symmetrical framing of gorgeous objects, human and architectural. For the Westerner, it offers a tour of exotic lands and customs: China in its last imperial gasp. How very sumptuous, you will say of the visual style -- though Red Lantern was made for an impossibly thrifty $1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princesses in A Pretty Prison | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

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