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...Some schools simply don't have as many resources and good teachers as others. Thu-Trang La, who took the AP calculus class at Bell last year, struggled with the questions on the AP exam that required the use of a graphing calculator in part, she says, because she hadn't learned how to use one in class. But last year when she repeated calculus at George Mason University in Virginia, she passed...
Sinedu Tadesse ’96 kills her roommate Trang Phuong Ho ’96 in their Dunster House suite. Lewis later says that Harvard will use the incident to raise awareness about campus resources for dealing with emotional problems, but does not change the College’s counseling or tutor systems...
...City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate the signing of the Third Alliance between God and man, witnessed by Caodaism's most revered saints: Vietnamese poet Trang Trinh, Chinese nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen and writer Victor Hugo. Midday Mass is open to the public and attended by church elders in brilliant blue, red and yellow robes...
...clergyman who spent his 13-year imprisonment under the communist regime emulating St. Paul by smuggling out messages to his followers and evangelizing his jailers; in Vatican City. Born into a prominent Catholic family?his uncle was former South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem?Thuan became Bishop of Nha Trang in 1967. Shortly after his appointment as Archbishop of Saigon in 1975 the city fell to the communists, who arrested Thuan as a subversive and imprisoned him without trial. He was expelled from Vietnam in 1991 and spent the rest of his life at the Vatican, heading the Pontifical Council...
...More than 30 years later, Ngoc thinks of those shriveled trees as he watches his two-year-old daughter crying on a straw mat, waving her crippled limbs. Unable to sit up by herself, Trang is one of dozens of malformed babies born in Bien Hoa, where birth defects occur three to four times more often than in other parts of the country, according to a leading Vietnamese researcher. The prime suspect is Agent Orange, the chemical defoliant sprayed for nine years by U.S. warplanes over southern Vietnam. Nicknamed for the orange stripes on its storage barrels, Agent Orange contains...