Word: yonge
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Cinematographer Hou Yong is struggling with a screenplay he hopes will be the vehicle for his directorial debut. So he has journeyed to a modest office in an apartment block in Beijing to seek advice from the master, Zhang Yimou. He's come to the right place. The celebrated director favors Hou with an impassioned soliloquy on his interpretation of the script: why Hou should use narrative repetition to create pathos, why the antique wardrobe stays in the same place for three decades, why the mother and the daughter never speak to each other at dinner...
...Yong Fu Xiao, the senior researcher on the team, said the study has far-reaching consequences for those suffering from myocardial infarction (MI), a heart condition common in heart attack victims characterized by an insufficient presence of blood vessels within the myocardium...
...When Hur Yong Chun saw his son's corpse lying on a wooden stretcher on the morning of April 3, 1984, it had two bullet holes in the chest and one in the forehead. According to a forensic expert at the army base where Hur's son was doing military service, it was a case of suicide. But Hur wondered if it was possible to shoot yourself three times with a rifle. Then Hur asked why blood around the wound on the right side of his son's chest was black and coagulated, while blood around the other two bullet...
...Seoul University. According to the KCIA, Choi jumped out of a seventh floor window at the agency's headquarters in 1973 rather than disclose details of a spy ring in South Korea. The commission determined that Choi died under torture or was thrown out of a window. For Hur Yong Chun, the process provided some of the answers he's sought for more than 18 years. After hearing closed-door testimony from men who were at the base, the commission found that a drunken sergeant identified only as Roh?a common surname in South Korea?accidentally shot...
...That Kim chose as his principal change-agent a mainland Chinese businessman with Dutch citizenship is, in itself, an acknowledgment that the North Koreans can't reform themselves. No less a figure than Kim Yong Nam, the second-most powerful man in North Korea, handed over the zone's authority to Yang in a ceremony last week, while other top comrades watched sullenly from armchairs. Yang, sporting a Kim Jong Il badge pinned next to the alligator on his Lacoste golf shirt, insists the new zone is a sincere effort. "General Kim wants to open a window to the world...