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DIED. INDRA DEVI, 102, early "yoga ambassador" to the West whose students included China's Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo; in Buenos Aires. After persuading globally renowned guru Sri Krishnamacharya to teach her (his first woman student), she traveled the world teaching her gentle brand of yoga, even prompting Russia to legalize the practice after she met with leaders...
...place you might still find should you have the time, funds and gumption to cross the muddy sweep of the Mekong into Burma or Laos. But if, like most tourists, you opt to view this famous confluence of three nations from Thailand's northernmost province of Chiang Rai, you might wish to check some of your preconceptions at the door. The unfettered, grasping, quick-buck kind of development that has turned so many of the kingdom's places of beauty into seething eyesores is fast taking hold along this stretch of the mighty river's banks...
...that another decade or so is all that separates this once lovely spot from becoming Pattaya-on-the-Mekong. "This was still mostly farmland 10 years ago," says Junfong Suphan, 48, a farmer who now sells counterfeit Nike clothing shipped down from China. Her stall in the town of Chiang Rai is one of dozens clustered near a towering sign that welcomes visitors to the Golden Triangle. Across the main road, the strip of guesthouses, bars, restaurants, souvenir shops and accompanying lurid signage expands daily. "I used to grow tomatoes and tobacco, but I can make a lot more money...
...Cucaracha and Enamorada, Felix married four times and had numerous lovers, the painter Diego Rivera among them. In the words of President Vicente Fox: "As an artist she gave everything to Mexico." DIED. YU CHI-CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line and became a staunch advocate of reunification with China; in Taipei. DIED. MALCOLM KALP, 63, former American diplomat to Iran and one of 52 hostages held by Islamic militants for 444 days beginning...
...this year, the privately held Sina Lions, is raising the bar in terms of shrewd professionalism. Co-owner Daniel Tu managed to drum up $1 million in sponsorships in the Lions' first season. Still, the U.S.-educated Tu, former president of STAR TV in Taiwan, and his partner Daniel Chiang, chairman of China's largest Internet portal, Sina.com, say teams must be given more autonomy if China is to kick-start the high-voltage basketball culture promoted by NBA franchises. "The best policy would be to give the clubs the rights to earn money, then if they don't have...