Word: quang
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...meds are always looking to get ahead and find new information," said Uyen-Khanh Quang-Dang '02, the magazine's layout editor. "I am sure pre-meds will be interested in accessing this collection of information...
Raised a devout Roman Catholic in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, she left home at 22 to study in England, eventually becoming an interpreter for the Red Cross. At 30, she met and married a German doctor but left him, amicably she says, to become a Buddhist nun and pursue enlightenment in India. Her recognition as a spiritual leader came rather suddenly in 1982 when she tried to buy a copy of the Hindu sacred work the Bhagavad-Gita that she says she saw in a shop along the Ganges. The shopkeepers said there were none in stock; she insisted...
...South Wind Changing by Ngoc Quang Huynh (Graywolf Press). A Vietnamese refugee to the U.S. who was a young student in Saigon when the war ended tells movingly of surviving a Marxist re-education camp and escaping Vietnam by boat. His adventures in the U.S. include earning a bachelor's degree at Bennington College and learning the rhythms of English well enough to write this haunting, oddly pastoral memoir. Even today, concerned that he may never see his parents in Vietnam, he writes, "I sat on the hill, surrounded by trees in their spring blossom, looking over the pond...
Scientists have the first living specimen of a large mammal species that was only discovered two years ago. In Viet Nam, authorities have confiscated a young female Vu Quang ox that had been captured by a hunter. The species was identified in 1992 when a research team came upon skulls previously unknown to science in hunters' homes. The strange animal, which in different respects resembles cattle, goats and antelope, represents only the fourth new genus of large land mammal to be discovered this century...
...wars against France and the U.S., has reportedly remarked to visitors that Vietnam did not fight for decades to gain control of its resources only to squander them once it was independent. Indeed, a people with the will to fight a superpower should have the ability to protect Vu Quang and its many glories...