The founding master of ‘Dachengquan, Wang Xiang Yhai, who is famous in the North and South, and praised by the martial arts circles of the whole country, has recently moved to Beijing. For the exchange of knowledge and opinions among the practitioners of different martial arts, he has arranged a meeting time every Sunday afternoon from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm, at Dayangyibin Alley, where he acts as ...

The October 2005 issue of the influential National Geographic magazine featured a comprehensive article that included a two-page graphical portrayal of the past 100 years of avian influenza pandemics and outbreaks. Most of this article is available online, but the two-page spread is only available in the hardcopy publication. While the article praised Hong Kong’s excellent efforts to control av...

Schulze and ranked-pairs elections have received attention recently, with the former having quickly become a widely used election system. For many cases these systems have been proven resistant to bribery, control, and manipulation, with ranked pairs being particularly praised for being NPhard for all three of those. Nonetheless, this work shows that with respect to the number of candidates, bo...

At the June 26, 2000 Human Genome Announcement Speech at the White House, President Clinton praised the completion of the initial working draft sequence of the entire 3.2-Gb haploid human genome, stating: “It will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.” The announcement was universally hailed as a historic achievement for some hopes for gallop...

The Innovations of the English learner's dictionary are wellknown and Justly praised, but some authorities have begun to question the Anglo-Saxon ethnocentriclty of these monolingual dictionaries and wondered If thls genre Is Ideal for foreign learners, WhIIe we should avoid the extreme fallacy of the one-to-one lexk:al equivalent which constitutes the maln limitation of the traditional blllngu...

The promotion of recreation and tourism has been both praised and criticized as a rural development strategy. This study uses regression analysis to assess the effect of recreation and tourism development on socioeconomic conditions in rural recreation counties. The findings imply that recreation and tourism development contributes to rural well-being, increasing local employment, wage levels, ...

However far the work of art may form a world inherently harmonious and complete. still. as an actual single object. it exists not for itself, but for us, for a public which sees and enjoys it, [so that] every work of art is a dialogue with everyone who confronts it.. . . At certain epochs [however] the public may be corrupted by a highly praised 'culture', that is by having put into its head th...

CSEA County Executive Committee chairman Arthur Bolton and CSEA president Theodore C. Wenzl, from l e f t , greet Milton Levine, chairman of the Sullivan County Board of Supervisors. Mr. LeDine was on hand to officially welcome delegates to CSEA's 63rd annual convention at the Concord Hotel in Sullivan County. Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson, l e f t , is shown with CSEA's top two electe...

includes an excellent historical postscript. Almost 70 per cent of this book is devoted to the interface, which the authors realize is the problem area, that the body presents between the physiological event and the resulting electrical signal. The two final chapters are a well prepared introduction to amplifiers and the necessary criteria for faithful reproduction of electrical data discussed ...

When it became clear that Southeast Asian developmentalist dictatorships were no longer developing economically during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, the global discourse of good governance suddenly threatened their hold on power. Long praised by the doyens of international finance for their developmental successes despite massive human rights violations, the authoritarian regimes of th...