Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think back to meals at Manhattan's Ess-a-Bagel, late night jaunts to H & H Bagels and the thousands of bagels in between--I always find myself surprised by the vast gulf in bagel quality between the two cities I call home. I may have learned to suppress the observation and block it out. And who could blame me? When done right, the bagel can serve as the focal point for an entire diet. But in the hands of lesser baker...it's nothing more than a carbohydrate-rich sandwich fragment...
Jiang was responding to a question about Chinese leader's decision to use military force to suppress the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement. The question was submitted by the Joint Committee for Protesting Jiang Zemin's Visit to Harvard...
...Twenty days after the massacre of June 4, Jiang Zemin officially assumed the post of the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. On the same day, he declared that "the foremost important political task at this moment is to thoroughly suppress the counterrevolutionary riot" and that "for those conspirators who planned, organized, and led the turmoil--and those counterrevolutionary thugs who participated in the riot--we must punish them according to the law, strike them with resolution and show them no leniency whatsoever...
...China suppresses individual human rights. So do a lot of other countries; for example, certain Islamic nations that forbid women from participating in society. In fact, the Tiananmen massacre was in the same vein as the United States' use of military force to violently suppress student uprisings during the Vietnam era. And prison labor is not unique to China; America uses prisoners to perform all sorts of tasks. In both of these cases, the Chinese model is more horrible than that of the U.S., but only by degree. As for religious freedom, many Islamic regions of China are given partial...
...documentary to be broadcast Thursday, Professor Jonathan Slack of the University of Bath in England tells how he manipulated the genes of a frog embryo to suppress growth of the tadpole's head and tail...