Word: mao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Life was infinitely more bitter under Mao. "My generation had the worst luck," says Zhang Shixun, the 48-year-old captain of Feizhang No. 3, a ferry that makes the daily trip from Chongqing downstream to Wanxian. "When we were starting to build our bodies, there was no food (the famines caused by Mao's Great Leap Forward killed more than 20 million). When we started to study, the Cultural Revolution happened, so we were sent to the countryside and stopped learning. Now as we start to make some money, there are all these layoffs. The younger generation will have...
Washington has been hip deep in China's civil war for 50 years, since General George C. Marshall tried unsuccessfully to mediate between the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek, and the communists led by Mao Zedong. Even now, under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the U.S. sells "arms of a defensive character" to Taiwan and warns Beijing that Washington expects "that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means." Any use of force would be "of grave concern...
...doses of vitamin E (over 400 IU) can trigger serious internal bleeding when taken with a blood-thinning agent like Coumadin. Even eating can be tricky. Grapefruit juice intensifies the effects of some high-blood-pressure medications (calcium channel blockers) while aged cheeses, wine and chocolate can turn antidepressants (MAO inhibitors) into poisons. And those are just some of the thousands of cross-reactions that pharmacists know about. New contraindications are added to the list all the time...
...have any view on abortion so long as it derives from ethical or practical or sociological or medical considerations. But should someone stand up and oppose abortion for reasons of faith, he is accused of trying to impose his religious beliefs on others. Call on Timothy Leary or Chairman Mao, fine. Call on St. Paul, and all hell breaks loose...
...makes the rest of the world, especially the U.S., pay it the attention it deserves. "Indian politicians feel they're not being listened to in the world because we don't have the Bomb," says Surjit Mansingh, a disarmament professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They follow Mao's advice that a loud fart is better than a long lecture." Even though he was "bitterly disappointed," the ever empathetic Clinton suggested that India may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem because it believes it is "underappreciated" as a world power. "Well," he continued, "I think...