Word: chungshan
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...trouble is, there can be a heavy financial price to pay for honesty. "Administrators don't want to admit they have SARS patients because it will mean a dramatic drop in patients coming to their hospital," says Michael Tai, head of the department of social medicine at the Chungshan Medical University in Tai-chung, "and that means they will lose money." Still, "other hospitals won't dare to buck the system now," says epidemiologist Ho Mei-shang, who has been tasked by the President to bring hospitals into line. "They are getting the message...
...years ago, Kou had been a carefree student, the son of a small landowner in Kwangtung Province's fertile Chungshan County. Then the farm was requisitioned to add to the giant Ku Cheang commune. Parents and children were marched off to different work barracks. With five other men and boys, Kou was assigned to a one-room...
Slowdown by Noon. "On broad, dusty Chungshan Lu, Nanking's main street, a pretty Chinese girl, trim in a white sweater, cycled by, said good-morning in perfect English, and serenely rode...
Despair Among the Tunghsi. Daylight does nothing to light up the funereal mood of the city. The morning rush hour crowds on Chungshan Road are too dispirited even to shove or grouse as they wait for buses or pedicabs...
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