Word: yao
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...Setting the Record Straight One is Left Our Milestone on the death of radical Maoist Zhang Chunqiao [May 23] said in error that he was "the last surviving member of China's notorious Gang of Four." There is still one remaining member, Yao Wenyuan, who is living in Shanghai...
...popular convention site, is on the Metrorail route, close to Reliant Stadium (home of the Houston Texans and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo). So are the hotels and high-rises of Houston's downtown business district. Near the northern end of the rails lie the Toyota Center, where Yao Ming's Rockets hold court, and Minute Maid Park (known locally as the Juice Box), where Roger Clemens pitches...
...hope of Chinese political reformers, who lost his post after he publicly sided with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters; in Beijing. Zhao joined the Communist Party in 1938 and eventually rose to be its General Secretary, a leader fondly remembered by many Chinese. Peasants in Sichuan used to say, "Yao chi liang, Zhao Ziyang," a rhyming pun that means, roughly, "If you want to eat, look for Zhao." After trying to prevent the brutal Tiananmen crackdown, he was purged and placed under house arrest, where he remained for the rest of his life...
Ou’s roommate Yao Huang ’08 agreed that in times like these “even procrastinating stresses...
...challenge of identifying the corpses is compounded by the bodies' disfigurements. By the time they reach the morgues, most are so decomposed that it's difficult even to determine their ethnicity. At Yan Yao Temple, a makeshift morgue near the worst-hit resorts of Khao Lak, forensic experts in protective clothing and masks are working 18-hour days, pacing through wreaths of vapor from the dry ice used to preserve the decomposing bodies. Each corpse is numbered; under standard international practice, the bodies must then be positively identified via dental records, fingerprints or DNA before they are released...