Word: student
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...itself. Throughout its almost 150- year history as a bold, pushy trading enclave, the business of Hong Kong has been business. The colony was a place where foreigners and Chinese alike came to make money and get away from the political turmoil on the mainland. But since the student movement blossomed in Beijing last April, Hong Kong has been galvanized. It has found an identity at last, and it is Chinese...
What leads a writer to choose his specialty? For Andrew Tobias, it was his experience as a part-time entrepreneur at Harvard in the late 1960s. Joining in several college-run ventures, he rented refrigerators to dorm dwellers and helped write the popular Let's Go: The Student Guide to Europe. Says Tobias: "I learned a lot in a short time, but I decided that I have more fun writing about business than trying...
...little indication of what will follow. Khomeini was the glue that held together Iran's political radicals and religious extremists. Many Iranians fear that their country will now be torn asunder by bitter factional struggles. "All the people say things will be worse now," warned a 23-year-old student. "We were united when Khomeini was alive...
...gold card for 21 years now, and am thus something of a student of American Express. I watched in amazement as it introduced flight insurance, in admiration as it goosed charge volume by offering to donate money to the Statue of Liberty, in wonder as it offered the platinum card (twice to a friend who was at the same time being dunned for late payments on his green card), and in awe as it offered baggage insurance against the possibility that your tennis racket would wind up in Acapulco more than six hours after you did. (A mere...
...Institute graduate Woodhull's is possibly the most obvious. "It's more stupid to do something dangerous in the kitchen than to ask for help. And asking for help doesn't mean you're not a good cook," she points out. On the other hand, advises Lynn Sheehan, a student at San Francisco's California Culinary Academy, where nearly half the 400 students are women, "if you feel you need more upper-body strength, go work out." Elizabeth Terry, the chef-owner of Elizabeth on 37th in Savannah, advises the women in her kitchen: "If you can't handle...