In China, many first learn they are infected when they apply for work or a place at university and undergo medical examinations.

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It has been my desire to go for further studies, and recently I got an invitation to apply for a one year sponsored fellowship at Harvard University, all this, because I was a winner at the CNN MultiChoice awards.

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Outside the U.S. Consulate in Shenyang, a teacher at Liaoning Normal University who gave her name as Guo prepared to apply for a visa.

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Excerpt: Thinking that she might welcome time off from the job, he had suggested that she should apply for one of the university-entrance schemes and read for a degree.

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Mehul Kar, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, intends to apply to the accelerator as a funding source for CollegeDesis, his planned online portal for college students of South Asian descent.

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