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Benjamin, age 8, climbs up into the kitchen sink for his eve- ning bath, as his sister Daisy climbs out. Rose throws a towel over Daisy, shampoos Benjamin, tells Davey and Joey to get pajamas on the twins...
Chinese athletes did, and for every winner piously proclaiming that the victory was "for the Motherland," another, like Featherweight Lifter Chen Weiqiang, 26, put it more personally: "I got the gold medal, and it feels good." Before leaving China for the Games, Gymnast Li Ning, 20, who won three golds, a silver and a bronze, had spoken in a similar vein: "I am going to Los Angeles to pick up gold medals. I know what I am talking about, and I mean what...
...millions who had heard it on film and stage. Homer must have known someone very much like Richard Burton. Describing Odysseus' effect on an audience in a faraway land, the poet wrote: "He ceased; but left so pleasing on the ear his voice, that list'ning still they seemed to hear...
When the Westinghouse Science Talent Search named its top achievers this month, the announcement was yet another instance of a growing national trend. Grand Winner Paul Ning, 16, is not a native-born American. The son of a Taiwanese diplomat, Ning came to the U.S. at the age of three. By eleven, he was constructing a simple wind tunnel to study the relationship between velocity and pressure. Now a senior at the elite Bronx High School of Science in New York City, Ning feels, "You have to be aggressive in your studies to really understand what you're doing...
...Paul Ning is part of a phenomenon obvious to any American who has not been glued to his Sony for the past decade: Asian Americans are only about 1.5% of the U.S. population, but what they lack in numbers they make up for in achievement. Out of 40 Westinghouse finalists, nine were born in Asia and three others were of Asian descent. Some 10% of Harvard's freshman class is Asian American. While no more than 15% of California high school graduates are eligible for admission to the University of California system, about 40% of Asian Americans qualify...