Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...escape from China, Hsun-ching must find Colonel Sun, the man who had saved his life at the waterfall. Colonel Sun turns out to be the perfect companion/bodyguard, considering the fact that he is immortal and has never lost a battle since he was born "seven centuries before the birth of Christ...
...bright sun of a northern winter can still turn the palaces and churches of Peter the Great's city into a feast of visual elegance. But beneath the sparkling exterior, the mood of the city's 5 million inhabitants is as frigid as the ice piled up in the Neva River. Slowly, less dramatically than during the 900-day siege by the German Wehrmacht in World War II, St. Petersburg is experiencing real hunger...
Origins wants to make it very clear how much they value the spiritual over the material. Thus, while the Body Shop's perfumes are named after fruits, those in Origins are dubbed "Spirits of the Night," "Spirits of the Gardens," "Spirits of the Sun" and "Spirits of the Forest," tastefully arranged in four big alchemist's bottles filled with leafy herbal stuff. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be any testers, so I was unable to commune with the spirits...
...with multiple exams on the same or consecutive days, or have useless gaps before exams for which they don't need to study. What's even worse is when--like me--you have a four-day intersession while your roommate runs off to Puerto Rico for two weeks of sun. Having students decide when to take exams lets them organize their time in the most useful way and makes it impossible for anyone to complain...
...Sun said she supports the shorter reading period, however, because it allows for a longer intersession...