Word: yanging
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...Biathlon is another yin-yang event, as it combines cross-country skiing-which gets the heart rate roaring-and riflery, which requires a calm, relaxed touch. Europeans are still the best, but American Jay Hakkinen, 24, has placed as high as fifth in a World Cup event. Hakkinen, who has been blasting since 1994, says that despite America's habitual futility in biathlon, he has heard only support, never ridicule: "You just don't joke around about the guy with the gun, I guess...
...Pervil ’98 makes copies for Us Weekly magazine in New York. Sharon C. Yang ’98 makes coffee for a large law firm in Los Angeles...
Around her face, she wrapped an embroidered green scarf; her lips were painted red. By the time she had passed the turnip and tomato stalls of Yang-e-Qale town, a crowd of jeering men had formed. It was a woman who delivered the first blow, then the men joined in, pelting her with stones. Children finished the job by kicking up swirls of yellow dust, as she lay on the ground shielding her exposed face...
...Northern Alliance also points to schools like the one in Yang-e-Qale, a remote hamlet a half-hour?s jeep ride from Khoja Bahauddin, as proof that it promotes women?s rights. More than 50 veiled girls crowd the Yang-e-Qale school?s first-grade class, reading the Koran. But in the eighth-grade class, only 12 students sit at the desks, their burkas hanging on hooks in the back of their classroom...
...It’s really tragic and disturbing. It’s sad to think that so many people are lost like that,” said Aram Yang ’02, president of the Harvard University Korean Association...