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...Hung, whose cousin Christina Hung ’06 is also traveling to Beijing Normal University this summer on a Freeman grant, said she plans to remain in China next year in a regular study abroad program at Nanjing University...
Lakhdar Brahimi is a diplomat by trade and a political conjurer by necessity. An 11-year veteran of the U.N., Brahimi, 70, has the unenviable job of trying to make normal governments suddenly appear in places where in the past normal was defined at the barrel of a gun. In 2001 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan dispatched Brahimi to cobble together a new government in Afghanistan after the U.S. military had run the Taliban out. Today that government controls the capital city of Kabul and not much else, but make no mistake: success in the places where he works...
...significantly less effective at finding polyps than standard scans. Yet only months ago, another study, using more advanced equipment, showed it to be just as good as traditional colonoscopy at detection. The disparity prompted J.A.M.A. to editorialize that the difference between virtual colonoscopy's potential and its results in normal practice is "so great that physicians must be cautious." Both technique and training need improvement...
...entire month. The Estonians followed suit, fearing the price of salt would triple or quadruple. Yevgeni Boldyrev of the Tallinn-based grocery supplier Haljas Company told Vesti, Russian State Television's news program, that his company sold 2,000 tons of sugar in March, five times the normal amount. In Poland, customers went on a sugar-buying frenzy in the last week of March, forcing some stores to limit purchases to 10 kg per customer and driving sugar prices 50% higher. A headline in Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's leading daily, called it white fever. The more affluent Czechs have been...
...Doom used to be part of a normal rap group, but as that hit the fan, he created this new identity for himself and, true to form, his true face hasn’t been seen in years, dropping yearly tracks under a number of aliases, including Victor Vaughn...