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	Watermelongate? So did you hear about the Asian Pacific American woman of Vietnamese descent who wanted to honor San Francisco’s newly appointed police chief so badly, she presented him with three watermelons? It was a gift. Ah, the gift of watermelon. But not one carved in crystal and sold at Tiffany. I think we’re talking the supermarket, garden variety. That’s okay. It’s edible. There was only one problem. The chief is African American... FULL STORY...		AsianWeek Goes to School (Feature) Bill to Designate APA Serving Institutions (in National News) ‘We Are Not the Enemy’ (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: Kingdom Hearts (in Business) Yao Misses the Shot (in Sports) Photographer Thomas Chang Makes a Scene (in A&E) Emil Amok: Watermelongate? (in Opinion)

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Lead Editorial: Knowing No Boundaries In the middle of the night on Dec. 2, 1984, 40 tons of various lethal gases began spewing from Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Instead of an attempted evacuation of the surrounding area, people were made aware of the disaster when they awoke in their beds with their eyes searing and the gases filling their mouths and lungs. What ensued in the following hours was complete chaos...

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