Word: jing
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...team of Harvard researchers, led by Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Medicine Jing X. Kang, have taken a gene from the nematode worm and inserted it into mice, increasing the ratio of good fat (omega 3) to bad fat (omega 6). Down the road, they hope to use this innovation to make healthier meat, milk, eggs and other animal products...
...trilogy, Tsang stands in front of a Buddhist temple, shouting out an elaborate initiation ritual to a line of young extras. After the first take, he orders the extras to remove their shirts, telling them to flex their fake tattoos for the camera. The movie's director, Jing Wong (God of Gamblers, Royal Tramp), doesn't seem to mind Tsang taking control?in fact, it's part of the reason Wong cast him. "Eric's very creative and can contribute a lot to dialogue, costumes, the acting, and the comic setups," he says as Tsang barks more instructions...
...police insisted it was a model bust. They'd stopped a taxi on its way into the industrial city of Lanzhou on the fringe of the Gobi Desert. While some officers pointed their guns at driver Jing Aiguo's temple, others retrieved from the back seat of the car nine plastic sacks containing three kilos of heroin. Jing had never run afoul of the law before, but the police?then engaged in one of China's periodic "Strike Hard" crime crackdowns?quickly obtained his confession. After a one-hour trial, the judge announced his sentence: death...
...Before Jing could be executed, however, fortune handed him a reprieve. Lanzhou police arrested a dealer who admitted that he had helped officers set Jing up for a drug rap. Jing won a second trial?and the real story came out. The arresting officers had planted the heroin. They had coerced Jing's confession by shocking him with electric batons and hanging him by his handcuffed wrists until "the blood poured down my arms," Jing testified during his trial. By the time of his release last January, the cab driver had spent more than a year on death...
...UNVEILED. "DANCING BEIJING," the 2008 Beijing Olympics symbol, which is an anthropomorphic Chinese character jing, in midstride; in Beijing...