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...standards are astronautical. He spends his days designing satellite controls for space missions at Lockheed Martin. Evenings, he runs Naatak, a theater company he co-founded in 1995 to produce plays and movies, some of which he writes and acts in, for Silicon Valley's large South Asian population. A first novel published in India sank like a samosa, but The Peacock Throne is on several hot-new-books lists in the U.K. A French edition will appear next year, and a U.S. sale is imminent. "I'm now working on a fictionalized biography of my great-grandfather, a merchant...
...Western eyes and Eastern. It's very good on Russia. He's very insistent that you have to make the imaginative effort to see it - you have to pluck out your Western eyes when you think about Russia. Russia never really decided whether it was a European or an Asian country, and there's that mix in the national character that is both European and Asiatic...
...year-old in the world bone marrow registry, and whether those donors would fully match Cross or be willing to donate is uncertain. Because bone marrow type is likely to be shared within populations, Cross, of Korean and Western European descent, is most likely to find a match among Asian and European donors...
While registering in the national bone marrow database normally costs $52, the Cross family has organized a fund to cover the costs of having a donor entered in the registry, according to a Web site set by the family, www.helpsamiam.com. The cost is also waived for fully or partially Asian donors when they register through the Asian American Donor Program at aadp.org...
...companies are stronger and more efficient than they were a few years ago. "It's dangerous to bet against China," he says. Also, if China Life and banks that fueled last year's blockbuster IPOs are excluded from the picture, Shanghai stocks trade at prices comparable to those of Asian firms listed on other regional bourses. In fact, some of China's smaller manufacturing and textile companies are still relatively undervalued. "Judging from history, the stock market doesn't bust when the buying is concentrated on blue-chip names," says Lan Xue, head of China research for Citigroup...