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...edition was unveiled in July before a gathering of European transport ministers, features works along the No. 1 line by Greece's Jannis Kounellis, Britain's David Tremlett and Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto. The brand-new Materdei station sports a brightly colored sculpture by Luigi Serafini and a Sandro Chia mosaic. Achille Bonito Oliva, the project's curator, calls it the world's first "obligatory museum" - if you ride the No. 1 line, you can't miss it. Still, city officials are perhaps proudest of the brushstrokes that have not shown up. Barely a trace of graffiti or vandalism...
...tragic face of the SARS epidemic in Taiwan doesn't belong to a patient or a politician, or even to a doctor or a nurse. Instead, the most vivid expression of this outbreak's impact can be found on an eight-year-old girl, Tang Chia-ru, who wears her hair in pigtails and, when given the choice, prefers noodles to rice. Last Friday, she stood behind her father fidgeting with her face mask and staring at the swarm of photographers who surrounded her and at the smiling face of her mother who looked down from a picture frame hanging...
...late, though, for eight-year-old Chia-ru. Her father, Tang Se-hu, says she is still trying to comprehend the loss of her mother and misses the trips she used to make to the hospital where, he says, "her mom was always working." He adds, "she knows her mom helped care for people and saved lives." When she's older she will no doubt wish that someone had taken more care with her mother's life...
...without heat in many dorms until just days ago, there was to be a new glimmer of hope on the dating horizon. With breath freezing on my monitor and my once-bald arms sprouting like over-watered Chia-pets, I wondered how many potential romantics, at that very moment, might have inched a little bit closer together in search of warmth. I wondered how many more might have put down their kinetics problem sets altogether and made some, ahem, kinetics of their...
...influx of money too ugly to spend. The territory's monetary authority last month released into circulation a revamped $10 bill that, instead of inspiring confidence in the territory's financial underpinnings, reminds people of a discount coupon for laundry detergent. "It looks juvenile," says local merchant Jeremy Chia of the garish pink and purple banknote. Part of the problem is the inclusion of numerous anti-counterfeiting features, including embossed text and a watermarked bauhinia flower. "The abundance of security features may not be appropriate," admitted monetary authority chief executive Joseph Lam?especially since the note, worth about...