Word: ming
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...Sports: Filling Yao Ming's Shoes...
...Golden West High in Visalia, California, and the University of Northern Arizona, a former Denver Nugget who lasted only six games in the NBA. He has been hired this season by the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) to do nothing less than replace the irreplaceable Yao Ming at center. That makes McClintock the man in the middle of the biggest sports story in the most populated place on earth...
...Sports: Filling Yao Ming's Shoes...
...every Westerner who has journeyed to Cathay since Marco Polo, he finds himself bedazzled by China's masses and her mystery. He is asked if he is a bit overwhelmed by his new life in Shanghai. "I came here to play the game," says the Man Who Would Be Ming. "No matter where you are, basketball comes down to one thing. Put the ball in the hole...
Elizabeth Clear, a 64-year-old housewife, had long been a 30-a-day smoker. But it still came as a shock when doctors running tests for a hiatus hernia at London's Whittington Hospital found something much more serious - lung cancer. And when consultant Siow Ming Lee proposed enrolling her in a trial using thalidomide to treat the disease, she got an even bigger shock. "That was the drug that damaged the children, wasn't it?" she asked. Despite her initial misgivings, she's now pleased she was given thalidomide - her cancer has been in remission for nearly...