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...charmed, glamorous destiny seemed to await Mei-ling from the moment she was born into a remarkable family. (Her sister Soong Ching-ling would marry Sun Yat-sen, modern China's founder.) Their father, C.V. "Charlie" Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of kindly Methodist evangelists in North Carolina, returned to China intending to be a missionary but instead became an entrepreneur. Mei-ling, at the age of 11, entered high school in Macon, Georgia. Nine years later, she returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley College, the vestiges of a Southern drawl...
...Born Soong May-ling in 1898 on the island of Hainan - site of the spy-plane incident that marked the first foreign policy crisis of the Bush administration - Madame Chiang was raised as a Christian and educated at Wellesley College where she graduated in 1917. Her sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the nationalist leader who created modern China after overthrowing the Qing imperial dynasty in 1911. May-ling married the young Kuomintang (KMT) general Chiang Kai-shek in 1926, a year after he'd taken control of the party and the year before the onset of a bloody...
...size gadgets almost quadrupled between the quarters before and after iTunes' launch. Apple's approach borrows from a proven business tactic. "Westinghouse created radio shows to sell radios," notes Lee Black, an analyst with Jupiter Research. AOL Music takes a cut from songs sold through MusicNet, but its ka-ching comes from the 16 million visitors it delivers each month to advertisers like Coca-Cola...
...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 in a Taipei funeral parlor. Her mother was nurse Chen Ching-chiu, who died in the line of duty at the age of 48 and has become a touchstone for Taiwan's heartbreak and frustration at the government's inability to curb the spread of the virus...
...Feng-ying, nurses' supervisor in Hoping's chronic-disease ward, says she saw no evidence of a deliberate cover-up. In her view, the real problem was that "in the early days, the criteria for diagnosing SARS were unclear." Indeed, Wu now suspects her friend and colleague nurse Chen Ching-chiu contracted SARS while trying to resuscitate a patient who was only later discovered to have had the disease...