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...business, which his wife Su Yongchang supplements with about $230 earned by raising rice and vegetables on a plot of a bit less than an acre. Su claims to know little about Deng or politics: "I only know that the policies now are good, so that we can get rich." Montreal, Canada Aug. 2, 1976 It is an Olympiad of contradictions. There she stands, poised on the balance beam - a 4-in. strip of spruce, 161/2 ft. long, 4 ft. above the padded flooring. The palms of her hands are coated with gymnasts' chalk that is as white...
Colleges do a lot of marketing to ensure that they bring in a huge number of applications, only to turn down most of them to make room for rich kids. It's true that many top colleges have announced expanded financial-aid opportunities for low-income kids. But none of these élite private colleges have announced any diminution of the preferences they have for wealthy kids or legacies, and they're not willing to give up their preferences for athletes in élite sports like squash, sailing, polo and crew. The losers here are the middle-class kids...
Could Arkansas - land of rich barbecue, fried chicken and a famously overindulgent former President - turn out to be a rare bright spot in America's battle against child obesity? That was the proud claim made in a new report released on Wednesday by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement and Governor Mike Huckabee, who is himself renown for losing 110 lbs. while in office...
...because she doesn?t like doing autographs and she doesn?t like getting her picture taken, which I find completely annoying when you?re a celebrity. In the early days, you want people to buy your product and you want people to follow you, but when they become rich and famous they don?t have time for regular people anymore, which I find really irritating. For her to say to me that it?s funny and she gets it is a great compliment - she gets that I have fun with it and I?m not trying to be mean-spirited...
...that's electronically filtered to produce the microscopic color pixels that make up the image, whereas plasma TVs have pixels that emit colored light themselves. LCD TVs are better than plasmas in bright rooms and are very affordable up to about 42 in. Plasma TVs offer deep blacks and rich colors and can be viewed from wider angles than LCD TVs and are available in larger sizes...