Word: kim
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...criticism began to emerge that the program drove adolescent girls too hard in service of demanding parents and coaches. Much of the criticism was aimed at Karolyi, the former Romanian coach who brought the world Nadia Comaneci and later trained such U.S. stars as Mary Lou Retton and Kim Zmeskal...
...Kim Masters/Los Angeles
...hope to play a constructive role for peace on the Korean peninsula." The two Koreas ended their 1950s hostilities with an armistice, and are technically still at war. Until now, there had been no official word on China's reaction to the April proposal by President Clinton and President Kim Young-sam of South Korea, though China's first, non-committal comments were promising. TIME's Jaime FlorCruz reports from Beijing that today's acceptance is another sign of the warming in Sino-American relations since the tense standoff this March in the Taiwan Strait during Taiwan's first democratic...
...Julie C. Kim...
...like Brown, the real sci-fi is "hard" sci-fi. It's the literary equivalent of a whiskey shot: bracing, no-nonsense extrapolation of today's science. And it's coming back after years of neglect. The colonization of Mars, for example--a quintessential hard sci-fi subject--inspired Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars (Bantam). The third volume in his acclaimed Mars trilogy, it's a painstakingly plotted epic that follows a group of pioneers across centuries as they transform the Red Planet into an ecologically friendly refuge. "We're acting as the conscience and subconscious of the scientific...