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IT HAD BEEN ONE OR perhaps two hours since Mother went away. Ling retraced her steps down Huoping Road before midnight. For a long time, Mother had threatened to leave for good whenever she had fights with Father. This was the first time she actually did.
Ling had followed with tired eyes. She had stopped to smell the red bean pastries when a passing hawker asked if she wanted to buy a fresh-baked moon cake. Her stomach grumbled like an empty can for she had not eaten enough porridge for dinner. "No, thank you," she said, knowing she had no money to pay for the treat. That was the moment she lost sight of her mother at the bus station.
Ling was mad for ...
- US journalist Laura Ling (L) is embraced by her mother Mary Ling...
- Picture from: Getty Images ROBYN BECK August 5, 2009 700+ words
...Getty Images 08-05-2009 US journalist Laura Ling (L) is embraced by her mother Mary Ling... Full Size JPG (2657 KB) US journalist Laura Ling (L) is embraced by her mother Mary Ling (C) as her sister Lisa Ling (R) reacts...
- Ling-Ling Bamboozles Zoo With Twins; One Panda Cub Was Stillborn; Survivor Is...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Karlyn Barker June 25, 1987 700+ words
Ling-Ling's newborn giant panda cub...good health and locked in its mother's embrace yesterday even...the cub is nursing from its mother. If it were not taking nourishment...weaker, he said. CAPTION:Ling-Ling,in photo taken from...
- May-Ling.
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Sommer, Libby July 1, 2003 700+ words
...in-law said May-Ling was very tired from the...like a miniature of her mother to Anny but to her Chinese...house so she can see May-Ling. May-Ling calls out, woof woof...is angled towards his mother and his expression is...
- Ling-Ling Bears a Bundle To Hsing-Hsing About; Zoo Keepers Elated by Healthy...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Karlyn Barker June 24, 1987 700+ words
Ling-Ling, the National Zoo's female...States. The cub's aging mother immediately cradled and licked...cub was all but lost in its mother's protective embrace. For...glimpsed sticking out beneath Ling-Ling's chin. "It looks...
- Pitter -Patter of New Panda Expected; Zoo Plans All-Out Effort to Keep...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Karlyn Barker July 24, 1988 700+ words
...retrieve a new cub from mother Ling-Ling and inject it with immunity...includes anesthetizing the mother shortly after she gives...considered an exemplary mother and known affectionately and simply as Ling around the Connecticut...
- Laura Ling's Aunt Anna relieved niece freed; Rutland relative has close...
- Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) August 8, 2009 700+ words
...against cancer in children. Mrs. Ling Pierce made it through that...morning after he died," Mrs. Ling Pierce said. "He brought up...alone after divorcing their mother when they were 4 and 7," she...and him and the girls." Lisa Ling is widely recognized as a former...
- Ling-Ling's Cub Dies After 3 Days ;Bacterial Infection Thought to Be Cause
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Karlyn Barker June 28, 1987 700+ words
...evening, Connery said, Ling-Ling had cradled the cub and panda...m. "At 11:45 p.m., Ling went over with the baby to the...said Connery, who observed the mother from near the enclosure...collection manager Stevens, Ling-Ling picked up the cub and...
- Ling's sister: Reporter touched North Korean soil
- News wire article from: AP Online August 7, 2009 700+ words
...Laura, tell the story. Lisa Ling said her sister is still weak...her cell for exercise. Lisa Ling says Euna Lee's 4-year...Hana, has been following her mother around the house from room to...home. The moment, said Laura Ling, came when she and fellow reporter...
