They called her "Yang Nan-Nan, " a pet name Shanghainese give to girls who are fair-skinned and pretty.

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Nan, California -- I'm a single mom with a daughter in high school.

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Elsewhere on day 15 of the Games, China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back table tennis golds, after defeating team-mate Wang Nan to hand the hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles.

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With only one branch, 40 employees and a business exclusively in non-Chinese currencies, it is a wonder Morgan Stanley even knew Nan Tung existed.

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The Nan-Shan was being looted by the storm with a senseless, destructive fury: trysails torn out of the extra gaskets, double-lashed awnings blown away, bridge swept clean, weather-cloths burst, rails twisted, light-screens smashed and two of the boats had gone already.

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"The Afghan nan (the local bread) is almost a meter-long and half-an-inch thick, " Ashok wrote in a typical post on his blog.

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The price of a popular Iranian bread, known as nan-e sangak, has risen by about 30% in the past few months, according to Iranians.

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She'll be teaming up with fellow Singaporean actor Li Nan Xing to film The Unbeatables 2, a sequel to the high-rated gambling television series.

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At a family gathering, one of my older female relatives shyly offered me a set of molds used to make the fried Persian pastry nan-e panjerei.

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"Once you lose housing, it's expensive to get back in - deposits, two months rent, have a bad tenant's history - so the threshold becomes much higher, " says Nan Roman, president of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

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