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...week run-up has survived anthrax deaths, plane crashes and a war that didn?t seem to want to go anywhere until very recently. (Now that it?s on cruise control, defense stocks are pulling back almost as fast as the Taliban troops.) And if this economic year has taught us anything, it?s listen to the markets. And the markets say things are going to be all right again by summer...
...fists were the stars of the show. But the authorities didn't realize he aspired to more than just performing. "The monk's robe I wore on stage wasn't a costume to me," he explains. "I wanted to teach people Shaolin's traditions as they'd been taught to me. I wanted to do something real." Convinced that was no longer possible in China, Yan Ming slipped out of his hotel the night after his last gig, found a taxi and tried to tell the driver in his nonexistent English that he wanted to defect...
...class like Social Analysis 10 “Principles of Economics,” an 800-person course, two-thirds of which is taught in section, availibility of graduate students is a non-issue...
...will be orphaned by the disease. No society can sustain that kind of devastation, and the danger has only increased in the intervening year and a half. In addition to a human tragedy, the AIDS epidemic represents a direct threat to America’s interests; if it has taught us nothing else, the war in Afghanistan has shown how instability abroad can directly threaten us at home...
Compounding such strains are pressures that discourage couples from expressing how they feel. "They're afraid to say the parent is the source of stress in a marriage," says Pauline Boss, a family psychologist at the University of Minnesota, "because their culture has taught them it's their duty to take care of family." Doris Roberts agrees: "You feel selfish saying 'I'd like to be out playing golf today.' You think, Good children do this...