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...Yin Y. Nawaday contributed to the reporting of this article...
...might buy it just to read it, but not to learn how to cheat. I'd read it just because it looks interesting and funny," said Leo K. Yin...
...subject of welfare, Clinton, the moderate Southerner, is yin to Cuomo's Northeastern liberal yang. In Clinton's world, there is not a program for every problem. He cut Arkansas' relief rolls 7%, and part of his platform is to restrict payments to chronic recipients. He favors cuts not only to save money but because living on the dole can instill self-destructive values. Welfare, says Clinton, "should be a second chance, not a way of life." He tells dependent mothers to stop having children if they're not prepared to support them, because "governments don't raise children, people...
There are many Californias. Northern and Southern California, split from each other by the mountains east of Santa Barbara, are the notorious yin and yang, Hatfields and McCoys, of California geography and culture. But the state is dividing and subdividing now along a thousand new fault lines of language and identity. Perhaps anticipating a pattern elsewhere in the world (the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, possibly fracturing Canada?), the cultures of California seem to fragment into their constituent parts...
...squared with the Western science of physiology. Indeed, the mumbo-jumbo accounts are enough & to turn a believing patient skeptical. Chiropractors speak of subtle misalignments or "subluxations" of the spine, but other doctors usually cannot detect them. Acupuncture concerns itself with 12 pulses and 12 organs -- six solid, or yin, and six hollow, or yang -- connected to fingers and toes by channels through which energy flows...