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...until the early 1990s. In Hong Kong, many Eurasians have two names and shift their personalities to fit the color of the crowd in which they're mixing. Singer and actress Karen Mok, for example, grew up Karen Morris but used her Chinese name when she broke into the Canto-pop scene. "My Eurasian ancestors carried a lot of shame because they weren't one or the other," says Chinese-English performance artist Veronica Needa, whose play Face explores interracial issues. "Much of my legacy is that shame." Still, there's no question that Eurasians enjoy a higher profile today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eurasian Invasion | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...when a girl wants to be approached." If that doesn't make him enough of a babe magnet, Fai has the hippest job around. He's a graphic designer, and already, at the tender age of 23, he has designed album covers for the knight and lady of the Canto-pop world, Nicholas Tse and Faye Wong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night Of the Hunter | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...have a 10 a.m. class, the most logical time to have two shuttles would be at 9:50, not 10, when class is already starting, and I know for certain that there has only been one shuttle at 10," Del Canto wrote...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Shuttle Schedule Receives Mixed Reviews | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...just hope that less people end up walking as a result of the revamping," wrote Pforzheimer House resident Fabianna S. Del Canto '02 in an e-mail message to Pfoho-open, a House-wide mailing list. "The volume of students taking the shuttles is not regularly spread out. Shuttle service should reflect this...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Shuttle Schedule Receives Mixed Reviews | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...studying a computerized database of more than 430,000 people who suffered heart attacks across the U.S., Canto and his colleagues determined that there are six major risk factors that increase the chances that any heart attack you suffer will be atypical: having a weak heart (from congestive heart disease), diabetes or a history of stroke; being 65 or older, female or from a minority group. The increased risk is cumulative: if a 75-year-old black woman has a heart attack, her chances of experiencing chest pain are less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart Throbs | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

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