Word: businessman
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When I think of someone having a heart attack, the image that comes to mind is of a red-faced, overweight, middle-aged businessman. What I forget--and what I was forcefully reminded of by a survey in the current edition of Women's Health Issues--is that heart disease is also the No. 1 killer of women. In fact, more women than men die of heart disease each year, notes Dr. Sharonne Hayes, director of the Mayo Women's Heart Clinic and co-author of the study...
...ARRESTED. YANG WEN, 25, a mainland Chinese man; for last November's murder in Hong Kong of well-known businessman Henry Lam; in Hunan province, China. Lam, a director of one of Asia's largest golf resorts, Shenzhen's Mission Hills Golf Club, was shot dead while eating breakfast at his regular teahouse. Local media reported that he was having business difficulties on the mainland...
...year, seeking a change of pace, Brahm closed the books of his Beijing-based consulting practice to dedicate himself to his new projects. Still besotted with his eerily romantic image of a lost China, he has returned to his Little Red Book and the nostalgia tucked inside. Ever the businessman, he has used his China experience to turn a profit out of propaganda...
...Pearl was imprisoned in a small, cinder-block house surrounded by a garden that, in retrospect, was one of the first places in Karachi the police should have searched. The garden was owned by a local businessman, Saud Memon, who was a well-known jihadi with ties to al-Rasheed Trust. This charity was a major backer of the Taliban, and after the regime's collapse, police say, Memon used the garden hut to shelter Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives. Karim told police that on the day of Pearl's killing, either Jan. 29 or Jan. 30, Karim's boss...
...High-profile scandals haven't helped. Last April, returnee Huynh Quoc Quang was sentenced to life in prison for bilking people out of at least $10,000 with false promises of American work visas. The following month, police began chasing Ho Tran Lap, a Viet Kieu businessman accused of running an illegal long-distance calling service; he's still on the lam. And on Jan. 16, a Vietnamese-American who runs a company in Ho Chi Minh City that makes brushes and combs was stabbed in the forehead?the result, police suspect, of a business dispute...