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...Fang, tel: (886-2) 2217 7875, is far more than a dining venue. "I really don't possess the techniques that take Chinese chefs a decade to learn - that's why most everything I serve is steamed or dipped, which makes it healthy," claims chef and founder Lin Ping-hui. A former property developer, Lin these days adheres to what he terms the ancient Chinese lifestyle of "humility and cultivating beauty from within." Amid the forests of Yangmingshan National Park above Taipei, in three sparsely furnished pavilions (in which Lin, sporting traditional tunics, meditates every morning with his staff), diners...
...hoped that the protest would make people aware of the importance of anonymous testing. “I hope that it’s raising awareness,” she said. “UHS is trying to make this a very undercover issue.” Jia Hui Lee ’12, a political chair of the Harvard College Queer Students and Allies, said that the decision to halt anonymous testing puts people at risk. “It fails to acknowledge the fact that there are individuals in the community who need this service...
...decade since, massacres perpetrated by deranged gunmen have continued - including the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in which Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people and wounded many others. But something odd has occurred. Whatever momentum the Columbine killings gave to gun control has long since petered...
...even better fix. But he has a personal reason to take the issues seriously. Two years ago, he was in his apartment in Blacksburg, Virginia, listening to sirens sounding across the campus outside his window. A half-dozen friends of his were in the classroom where Cho Seung-Hui opened fire, and the names of some of the dead belong to people he knew. "The idealist in me is shocked and angry," Woods says, that restrictions on guns have eased rather than tightened in the wake of tragedies like the one at Virginia Tech. "But the cynic...
...going to face these issues. The most important thing is having people available to listen to these students. For example, we have to have some small classes, so that we know the names of these students and we notice if they're not responding. That was why Seung-Hui Cho was noticed in his English classes: because they were smaller...