Word: zhang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University of California at Santa Cruz researcher Yu-Shen Zhang--who co-authored a Nature paper last January with Toshiro Tanimoto, now at the school's Santa Barbara campus--suggested yesterday that the differences in the two findings were due to inferior resolution in the Harvard team's measurements...
...Zhang said yesterday that while Harvard data was taken from a large-scale model of the entire earth, his study focused on only the upper reaches of the mantle. He also suggested that a difference in the waves measured by the two teams could result in different sets of data...
Dziewonski speculated that some parameter may have been over- looked in Zhang's measurements, since somevelocities were slowed by up to 10 seconds in thenew model, but only two seconds in Zhang...
...that the popular Li Jing -- China's premier gymnast -- is a stuffed shirt. "Gymnasts only look big because TV screens are so small," he says with a wink. Among his teammates, he's the life of the party. "Li Jing is always a joker," says his coach Zhang Jian. "Except, of course, during competition, when it counts...
...very Chinese -- though this film, like Zhang's earlier Ju Dou, has yet to be shown on the mainland. The authorities see that both pictures, about rebellious young people crushed by mean old men, abound in dangerous political implications. And so, to their eternal discredit, the old men who run China have deprived their nation of the profound and pertinent pleasures that China's best filmmaker has provided for the rest of the world. Zhang is one in a billion. When will the billion get to see his work...