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State Department Spokesman Steve Pike said he hoped the change would make it easier for students from China to study in the U.S. “We generally want this process to be as easy as possible,” he said...
...took a right on Plympton, jumped on the Mass Pike, and eventually ended up in front of the Team Disney building in Burbank...
...gorgeous green mountains soaring over the Tug Fork Valley of West Virginia near the Kentucky border would not, at first glance, suspect that a combat zone was at hand. Yet for more than a century, bloody civil strife has roiled the region embraced by Mingo County, W. Va., and Pike County, Ky. There in the late 1800s, the Hatfield and McCoy families began a feud so lethal and long that it became legend. Then in 1920 the early struggles of the region's coal miners to unionize exploded into a fray that left nine people dead and is still remembered...
...Westchester County in the rearview mirror. Jane and I did some catching up-Luci, Steve, kids, opinions on Pedro, who had pitched a two-hitter the day before, beating Smoltz-and then trained our thoughts on Fenway. It wasn't hard. When we transitioned to the Mass Pike via the toll booths, there was a large metal sign saluting the New England Patriots, World Champions, as we approached, and then the Boston Red Sox, World Champions, as we exited. We made a pit stop near Framingham and everyone-everyone-milling about at the McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts counters...
...mainland would be a competitive advantage. The Shanghai operation opened in 1996, and a Beijing branch was added in 2002, as soon as the government gave the green light. "It was clear that by being there, we could see what was happening and what was coming down the pike sooner and easier than Hong Kong-based firms jetting in and out and getting information on the fly," he says...