11.   By World War II, Biggerstaff had become a noted scholar of contemporary China and served as a China specialist in the U.S. State Department during the war.

12.   Noted Moslem scholar A. Mustofa Bisri believes that what counts most is the intention of fasting.

13.   Three gunmen sprayed noted Shiite scholar Baqir Hussain Shah with bullets Thursday in the eastern city of Sialkot, police said.