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Kieu Viet Lien started at less than zero. She was born in prison in 1974. Her mother had been jailed as a Viet Cong agent. They were not released until April 1975, when North Vietnamese forces overran Saigon. Lien was schooled in the city, renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the victors. When she was 18 she got lucky: her application for a visa to study fashion in Australia was accepted. After three years in Melbourne, she went to Canada in 1996 for two years and then spent a year in Paris. There she fell in love with French style...
...chance, however hopeless their natural gifts. He tried at first to impress his teachers, combing through the thesaurus for a synonym for tears to use in an English essay he was writing about his sister's death. But his account of lacerates streaming down his cheeks earned him a zero so emphatic that "it left an impression visible all the way through to the back of the blue book," Bush recalls in his autobiography. "So much for trying to sound smart...
Maybe human intelligence is a zero sum game. The rules seem to demand that each manifestation of brains be matched by an equivalent idiocy...
...five years. In South Africa, 1 in 5 adults is infected; in Botswana the rate of infection is 1 in 3; in Zimbabwe it is 1 in 4. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, by 2003, AIDS-related deaths will slow population growth in some of these nations to zero, and the population in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa will actually start to decline. Life expectancy by the end of the decade would normally have been about 70 in this part of Africa; as a result of AIDS it will plummet to 30. Said the Census Bureau's Karen Stanecki...
...computer housed in a closed container at the ISP office. When the surveillance is over, the FBI computer returns to the field office. FBI officials say Carnivore is designed to protect the privacy rights of innocent friends and family members of a suspect. For example, it would zero in on in on Tony Soprano's e-mail orders to his henchmen while filtering out Carmela Soprano's gossip sessions with her sister and Tony Jr.'s visits to a Pokemon chat room. "This is a better minimization than what we do with headphones on a telephone tap," says one official...