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...think about your thesis every now and then. If need be, conduct your interviews and surveys; or, if you are motivated to do so, start reading up on background material. But don't ruin your summer stressing. If you never opened a thesis-related book from May to September--if your thesis never crossed your mind--it wouldn't make much difference in the long run. Enjoy your travels, your work or your play; the more rested you are by summer's end, the better you'll be able to tackle the task ahead of you. When you've settled...
Like China, Zhu lost two decades of his life as Mao pushed an already poor country into famine and industrial ruin in the 1960s and '70s. He is from a different shade of red than the standard communist cadre. The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China. Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928. "The Zhu family was very rich," says Zhu Yunzhong...
...Loose lips ruin trips Only a handful of White House reporters was allowed to accompany the Clinton women--and only on the condition that all private goings-on were off the record...
...technology is so advanced, it is fairly simple for anyone with the proper equipment to condense and make available whole CDs for free distribution. And with the advent of portable MP3 players now offered for about $200 by seven different companies, industry doomsayers are predicting the total financial ruin of music companies worldwide...
...Tapestries and the rest of the Met's collection of Medieval art. The land, the art and even the view are courtesy of John D. Rockefeller (he bought up the stretch of New Jersey shoreline visible from the grounds so that no one could build anything on it and ruin his view...