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...Incessantly silly plot revolves around friends Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack is in love with Algernon's cousin Gwendolen; Algernon falls in love with Jack's ward Cecily. Throw in a case of mixed identity, a missing handbag, a formidable aunt and a bunch of cucumber sandwiches and that's basically the plot of possibly the most prefect comedy ever written...
...year old cousin held a sign with my Chinese name traced in blue ballpoint pen on the inside of a Marlboro carton high above the crowd awaiting relatives and friends. I recognized the characters on the carton as it bobbed up and down with the black heads that surged to meet the bus. "That's me," I said, taking his sign and double checking the characters to make sure. Almost immediately, I was swarmed by young people. Two female cousins, hair swept back in identical, long pony tails, each grabbed me by the arm and tugged in opposite directions. "Oooh...
Ming-Ke, the most outgoing of my cousins, did the honors. "These are your father's little sisters: Big Auntie and Little Auntie. Little Auntie's husband is sitting up front with the driver. This van belongs to the construction company he manages. Li Mei is your eldest female cousin, she's 22 and works at the bank. your eldest cousin, my brother, had to work so he's not here. Li Gan is 21 just like you and is a student at Overseas Chinese University. Li Peng, we call her Premier, because her name is the same...
...pick me up, so everyone, despite motion sickness, sent me to the airport. Though they could not go with me to the waiting-room for passengers, they said they would wait until they were sure my plane had taken off safely for Hong Kong. My aunt had a cousin who worked with the airport police and arranged it so that they could bid me a last good bye on my way to the plane. As I emerged from the waiting room and onto the tarmac, they were there, standing in two neat rows. They smiled and waved...
...first known case of human infection with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a cousin of AIDS-causing HIV, has been documented in a laboratory worker. No one knows whether the virus, which isn't fatal in monkeys, will be deadly to humans, harmless or somewhere in between...