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CELIA CRUZ, who died last week, left her native Cuba in 1960 and spent the rest of her life taking listeners back there through her music. She was born around 1924, but was coy about her exact birth year. After growing up in Havana, she joined the band La Sonora Matancera. When Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, she left for the U.S., where her career flourished. Her contralto voice was like the waters that separate Miami and Havana--inviting, sun-kissed, capable of rising up in a storm. Cruz sang with everybody who was anybody in Latin music...
College sweethearts Park Ji Young and Lee Young Il bonded over video games. She liked Warcraft; he was crazy about Masters of Magic. Together they spent hours sharing joysticks in their dorm rooms at Korea University in Seoul in the early 1990s. They married and in 1996 gave birth to Com2uS, South Korea's most successful maker of video games for mobile phones and one of the largest such firms in the world. The company sells more than 30 games, like finger-wrenching City Racer and Com2uS Bowling, to mobile operators including Vodafone, Orange, AT&T Wireless, China Mobile...
...faith is being rewarded. A book of Tsiaras' images of fetal development, From Conception to Birth, published last year (and excerpted in TIME), has sold 150,000 copies. Nike hired AT to produce animated spots revealing the anatomy of a golfer's swing, and drug companies like Amgen and Pfizer are using AT simulations to show how new drugs work at the molecular level...
When Terry Neese cuts her charity checks each year, she's thinking about more than a tax deduction. One beneficiary, the March of Dimes, has deep personal significance for her. Neese, 54, learned of birth defects firsthand when her grandchild Emily, 8, was born with one arm shorter than the other. "In addition to giving to nonprofits that have important meaning to me," says Neese, who sits on the local board of March of Dimes in Oklahoma City, Okla., "I've done my homework to make sure these groups were getting the job done...
...believe that Christians should convert Muslims. I am a Christian by choice, not by birth. I believe wholeheartedly in the teachings of Jesus Christ. So I am not being irreverent in asking these missionaries whether they truly believe that converting the Muslims of the world to Christianity would solve all the problems of the planet. I would rather that these Christians, instead of preaching clandestinely to Muslims, acted openly and channeled their energy and resources to provide succor to the less fortunate of this world. Wouldn't our Saviour be more approving of these actions? Krish N. Pillai Noida, India...