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TASTEFUL LANGUAGE I'm wracking my brain for culinary superlatives as the moon-faced restaurateur eggs me on, plying me with cold beer. Mouthwatering? Lip-smacking? Succulent? Scrumptious? "Yes, yes," says Chai Uan-kum, proprietor of Chai Chuan Chin, scribbling furiously. "Very good." His is the newest establishment on Manting Lu Road, Jinghong's premier eat street, and I've been enlisted to help draft a sign in English that will lure peckish Westerners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...Campus Hillel Ambulance Initiative—nicknamed Project CHAI as the Hebrew word “chai” means “life”—plans to raise $70,000 to buy an ambulance for Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s official emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service...

Author: By Orofisola Fasehun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hillel Aims To Raise Funds for Ambulance | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...over 650 emergency ambulances operating 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year, but during the current conflict in the Middle East it must replace ambulances at a rate of 80 per year, according to the leaders of Project CHAI...

Author: By Orofisola Fasehun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hillel Aims To Raise Funds for Ambulance | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...boys are being held up as model spouses. If that sounds absurd, remember that this is a place where 93% of couples say they are unhappy in matrimony and 34% of marriages end in divorce. "F4 are so popular because women cannot find romance in real life," says Angie Chai, general manager of Comic Productions and creator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Listen Too Closely | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...?lite Taipei high school. (Mainland Chinese authorities were less enamored, saying it misled young viewers; Beijing recently banned the show after a few episodes aired on some local television stations.) The TV plot was adapted from a Japanese manga comic called Hana Yori Dango (Men Are Better Than Flowers). Chai, a variety-show producer, handpicked the boys from an audition of 200 (minimum qualifications: good looks and a height of 1.8 m) and dubbed them F4, short for the "Flower Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Listen Too Closely | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

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