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...among the first to make this headlong leap. Tian, the reigning Olympic champion in platform diving, zips around in a Mitsubishi Pajero suv and has a closet full of Versace and Armani. His rock-star mane and six-pack abs have helped cast him as a pitchman for Amway and Bausch & Lomb. Guo, with her porcelain-doll features and two silver medals from the Sydney Olympics, is an equally alluring marketing phenomenon: she has won ad and sponsorship deals with McDonald's and Budweiser-not, of course, that she'd be caught corrupting her slim physique with a diet...
...most subtle, tentmaking embodies St. Francis' edict: "Preach the gospel at all times; when necessary, use words." ("Be someone's friend, not an Amway salesman," paraphrases one veteran.) But the sometimes clandestine status can breed bad habits. Visa bans turn many Evangelicals, usually straightforward to a fault, into truth stretchers, if only at the customs desk. They use encrypted e-mail and code words or smuggle Bibles. "Some," says a Christian minister in Morocco, "seem to have been inspired by the book of James, verse 007." It is not really their fault, says the leader of one mission, contending...
...could always set up an Amway distributorship. Door prizes at the barbecue! Autographed 8-x-10 glossies of the stars. I have an attic full...
...Dean Joseph S. Nye travelled to China in January to promote the program which will be funded in part by Amway, a multi-national corporation that does business in China...
Local governments will propose candidates for the program to a committee consisting of two Kennedy School representatives, two Tsinghua representatives and two representatives of China’s State Council. According to Audie Wong, an Amway China vice president, the company has expressed interest in underwriting the program for the next five years, but only donated enough to cover the first summer...