Word: mabel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Future of Hong Kong--with Professor of Chinese Anthropology James Watson, Professor of Chinese Sociology Andrew Walter, Mason Fellow Arthur Ng, and TVB Pearl former newscaster Mabel Chan. In the Hong Kong Club, 2 Divinity Ave., room...
...American Wilderness, Revisited"--a photography show and discussion about the areas that have come to represent the American wilderness with photographer David Mussina. At Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., in the Mabel Louise Riley Seminar Room. Sunday, Dec. 15 at 2 p.m. For information call...
Other New Yorkers are waging private wars for safe and affordable housing. Willie Olmo, an electronics technician who supports his wife Mabel and five daughters on a salary of $30,000, had nowhere to go last year when the landlord abandoned the apartment building in which the family lived. When police declined to drive away crack users who had set up a drug den in the building's basement, Olmo picked up a baseball bat and chased them out himself. He then bought walkie-talkies with his own money and started a tenants' patrol, which has since expanded into...
...Mabel Osborne, 85, had spent two years sick in bed when she read about a SeniorNet class in Dallas. She signed up and made an important discovery. "I wasn't sick," she says. "I was just bored to death." Osborne quickly mastered basic computer skills and went on to study word processing at a local community college. "She bought a word processor and is now writing the history of her life," says Florence Wetzig, 69, a former beauty-salon operator who taught Osborne how to compute. "She has said to me many times that I saved her life...