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...This month he married his childhood sweetheart, a girl from his village who had managed to get a highly valued exit visa in the 1980s and settled in Minnesota. She flew to Saigon for the wedding, but Xuan knows it will still take years for the U.S. consulate to process his visa request to join her. "I know it will not be easy in America. I will always miss my family here. But I need to try something bigger...
...election connection is just one of the many new features of Timeforkids.com the cybersibling of TIME FOR KIDS magazine that was relaunched last week. In addition to this kid-friendly introduction to the American political process, the site provides late-breaking news stories, research tools and homework help. Come visit at www.timeforkids.com or use AOL Keyword...
...more fanciful ideas that are being floated. Lauder is studying shock proteins, which are released by the body in response to stress, in the hopes of preventing the formation of free radicals. Yale's Perricone is pushing the theory that inflammation also plays a role in the aging process, and antioxidants like alpha-lipoic acids could help reduce its effects...
...Francofolie seeped into my soul and I began the laborious process of cultural revisionism. I rejoiced in waiters, hotel receptionists and pharmacy clerks who refused to speak English. I scoffed at the idiots who spent an hour waiting to get into the Louvre when the alternative entrance is a few feet--I mean meters--away. I had mastered the difference between pain de campagne and pain au Levin. How much more French could...
...came to Paris expecting what I saw in postcards and Robert Doisneau photographs. Yet, what I got was something better. I have gotten a taste of a real, full-blooded city, rather than a cookie-cut image. And in the process of "becoming French" I have a better understanding of what it is like to be an American...