Word: chien
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...existence of the disease, only to see the number of infections explode?mistakes that cost the mainland's top health official and the mayor of Beijing their jobs. "Because we had avoided what happened in Hong Kong and China we thought we had avoided an epidemic," says Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist who replaced Twu as Health Minister. "But now we have to be humble and admit that perhaps we were careless...
...strain is beginning to show on the face of Chen Chien-jen, the new Health Minister. He says he was "cautiously optimistic" a week ago that the virus could be contained within a month. Now, with a map of Taiwan in his hands that shows victims in every region of the island, he is not so sure. "I can no longer be confident it won't spread farther," he says. "I even had to admit that to my own President." Armed with that information, it may not be too much longer before President Chen, too, is seen wearing a face...
...ACQUITTED. SU CHIEN-HO, 30, LIU PING-LANG, 30, and chuang lin-hsun, 30, known as the "Hsichih trio," who were convicted in 1991 of a high-profile murder of a Taiwanese couple in the Taipei suburb of Hsichih, and who served 12 years on death row; by a retrial judge citing insufficient evidence; in Taipei. The case had been taken up by human-rights activists who said the three men's confessions had been coerced through torture...
...breed. A joint venture between Japan's Fujitsu and Hitachi, the largest manufacturer of plasma screens, spent $40 million in its plasma business this year, and next year plans to double that. Plasma "is much more ready for the market at this moment, especially in large sizes," says Wang Chien-erh, a vice-president at market research firm DisplaySearch. "lcd TV makers are trying to catch up." How successful they'll be "depends on how much and how quickly they improve quality...
Race also factored into the blocking decision of roommates Kate G. Ward ’05 and Crystal I Chien Farh ’05, who found themselves sometimes at odds over their views on self-segregation. Ward, from upstate New York, is of a mixed European-Catholic background. Farh is of Chinese descent, and was born in the U.S. and raised in Hong Kong. “Probably the biggest thing that bothered me is that she said she feels more comfortable with Asians than whites,” Ward says...