Word: zhong
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...Health, as well as eminent doctors and scientists from other institutions. Every man in that room had lived and worked through the first-ever SARS outbreak; many were clinicians who had watched patients whither, suffocate and die from the disease. Of these physicians, the most powerful was Dr. Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. Famed for having been a physician to Deng Xiaoping, Zhong had also pioneered the earliest clinical treatments of SARS, emerging in China as the doctor most associated with fighting, and eventually defeating, the disease. A charismatic, well-built 67-year...
...Zhong was willing to hear out Yi, but where was his evidence? All they had, another public-health official explained, was this letter of warning, which, frankly, seemed a little hysterical. As the letter had been passed down from the Ministry of Health, somehow those four pages of genetic sequences, which provided the evidence backing up his dramatic assertions, were lost. Yi called his laboratory in Hong Kong and had the documents e-mailed to the Guangdong...
...Olympic athletes are not informed of a parent's death, lest their personal lives get in the way of their athletic performances. Officially, Gazza's late-night drinking isn't seen as an issue by his club. "Gascoigne fixed his alcohol problems before coming to China," says team manager Zhong Bohong. But the Flying Horses' officials also know that the potential for out-of-control partying is that much higher with Gazza's drinking buddies in town. Already, the first day after his father and friend showed up, Gascoigne drags a little in practice. "He needs to work harder," mutters...
Three weeks ago, Yun Qian (Cindy) Zhong, a sixth-grader assigned to Randy Helms' homeroom, walked into William Land Elementary School for the first time. She had all the gifts of a model student--intelligence, friendliness and an eagerness to learn. There was just one problem: Zhong, an immigrant from Canton, China, didn't speak a word of English...
Helms didn't panic. His students and their parents hail from as far away as Vietnam, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, Panama and, fortunately, China. By the end of Zhong's second week, Helms, with help from the Cantonese-speaking students in his class, had taught Zhong to count past 10 as well as to answer yes and no to questions translated...