Word: weis
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...Hsing Wei, the other Kennedy School intern, said she and her partner, stationed in the Midwest, found unmanned guard booths at some facilities, entered the labs with minimal background checks in most places, left their bags near the reactors in two of the places, and walked inside one lab with their bags...
...With investigative journalism, a lot of the time people try to spin it into using bad practices,” Wei said. “When you’re doing this kind of work, you’re walking that fine line, so a lot of the time it’s hard to understand that investigations are necessary to reveal certain things. I think all the fellows involved were ethical and wanted to be ethical...
...Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella.” The charming performance of this bell-like piece, based on a theme by violin-god Niccolo Paganini, further emphasized the piano’s intonation problems. Someone needs to tune that thing before the next concert. Wei-Jen Yuan ’06 sensitively balanced the voicing, emphasizing essential harmonic changes in “Feux Follets” and “Harmonie du Soir” also by Liszt. Yuan also treated audiences to an impromptu performance of Franz Schubert?...
...powers. They include the rapidly vanishing tiger and the unfortunate pangolin. According to the dictionary, pangolin scales can be "used to cure tumefaction [swelling], promote blood circulation and help breast-feeding mothers produce milk." If he wanted a more up-to-date answer, Jema'ah could also have asked Wei Hong, a Guangdong native in his mid-30s who developed a taste for pangolin meat when his father bought some 20 years ago in the hope of curing a skin disease. With the meat now selling at an exorbitant $100 a kilogram, Wei, a journalist, must depend on others...
...dish was doing to global shark populations. During the 2003 SARS crisis, wildlife activists dared to hope?briefly?that real change was possible. Scientists concluded that SARS had passed from wild civet cats to humans, most likely because the civets are a popular winter dish in China's ye wei or "wild taste" restaurants, which specialize in exotic meats. To safeguard public health, China's wild animal markets were closed, and ye wei restaurants emptied out as officials strictly enforced existing laws with frequent inspections and fines...