Word: pang
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...mean to ridicule these notions. Even eight years along, I can still pass as healthy most of the time, or could until this week; but there has been a slight pang of disloyalty to the cause in doing so. A woman with multiple sclerosis once said to me, unknowingly, about disease activists in general: "We all pray for someone famous to get our disease." Although I am a very minor public figure compared with the Pope--let alone Michael J. Fox!--I haven't been doing...
...Officially the Japanese government that stopped and detained him wouldn't even confirm the identity of the man traveling as Pang Xiong, but privately everyone involved left little doubt about who he really was. Pyongyang was keeping mum on the affair, although a close contact of the regime in Tokyo insisted it "is nonsense that Kim Jong Nam would come to Japan." Immigration authorities, tipped off by British intelligence sources, stopped him at passport control and whisked him to a detention center at the airport last Tuesday. He quickly admitted to authorities that he was in fact the man nicknamed...
...deported from Japan after trying to sneak into the country with two women and a four-year-old boy he wanted to take to Tokyo Disneyland. Japan and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations, so Nam, 29, was traveling with a Dominican passport under the name Pang Xiong. The Japanese government refused comment on the case in an effort to avoid further embarrassment to North Korea, but several news agencies confirmed Nam's identity. The trip could mark a potential split between Jong Nam, the presumptive future ruler of North Korea, and his poofy-haired father. In his collection...
...Janice Pang of Belmont, Calif., was a 23-year-old journalism graduate student on the verge of starting an internship when her parents' bitter divorce resulted in her taking sole guardianship of her sister Lisa, 11. Unprepared, Janice had to reorganize her life quickly. She pursued a job rather than an internship and moved into Stanford University family housing with her boyfriend Scott, who was willing to share parenting responsibilities. Dr. Laurie Kramer, a University of Illinois siblings expert, says that for the older sibling, such an upheaval can be restricting. "The ages from 18 to 25 are really...
...early and tragic death of a hero, a leader or a cultural icon always produces reactions of greater intensity than the sad passing on of a revered figure at a grand old age. The loss is not the pang of regret. It's the burning pain of what might have been...