Word: kang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tourist sites in Phnom Penh, long enough for locals to have stubbed out scores of cigarettes in the eyes of Pol Pot in one photograph. But this spring the monument to the past came into the news again when the man who had overseen the torture for four years, Kang Khek Ieu, generally known as Duch, was suddenly discovered, by foreign journalists, in a western Cambodian village. He was running a crushed-ice stall in the countryside and had certificates of baptism to prove his status as a born-again Christian. The man who oversaw the execution of at least...
...Make sure what you're taking is pure. Last May the FDA verified industry reports that certain shipments of ginseng were contaminated with high levels of a fungicide. Elaine Kang-Yum, a pharmacist at the Hudson Valley Poison Control Center in Tarrytown, N.Y., who tracks herbal medicines, says some imported Chinese remedies have been doped with Valium or other prescription drugs...
...Kang rallied alongside protesters like Yeshi Lokitsang--a Tibetan woman wearing the chuba, a traditional Tibetan dress--who arrived at 7:30 a.m. to prepare for Jiang's 10 a.m. arrival...
Among the crowds were people like Yan Kang, a Chinese national and graduate student at Yale University, who said economic development was more important to the Chinese people than any human rights violation...
...Kang says that his MCAT instructor was so paranoid that his car would break down the morning of his own exam that he stayed at a cheap motel next to the test center the night before to make sure that there were no mishaps...