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...Taiwan's march 20 presidential election, incumbent Chen Shui-bian has gone far beyond his predecessors in saying the island is an autonomous nation, not a breakaway province destined to be reunited with China. In addition, Chen has angered Beijing by planning to hold a controversial referendum on cross-strait issues on election day. In contrast, the main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), argues that warmer relations with China will benefit Taiwan's economy. Chen explained his stance last week to TIME's Executive Editor for Asia, Anthony Spaeth, and reporters Andrew Perrin and Joyce Huang...
...under the weight of cautionary tales about sex, drugs, divorce or delinquency, it's little wonder many young readers scurry off to the fantasy section instead. But one writer of teen fiction has proven herself both frank and frankly worth reading. Malorie Blackman's 2001 best seller Noughts and Crosses transcended the kid-lit clichés even as it staked out disputed new turf for youth fiction. Its 13-year-old black hero, Sephy, starts out French-kissing her 15-year-old white boyfriend, Callum; encounters racism, alcoholism, depression and suicide; and ends up pregnant and alone when Callum...
...woman show last year at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One of them is for a spa on the Okavango River Delta in Botswana. And we do mean "on"--the open-air guesthouses would float atop man-made "lily pads." Another plan is for her ingenious cross-shaped extreme-skiing facility in Alaska's Chugach Mountains, from which guests would be helicoptered to the highest slopes. "We had to come to grips with the logistics of a paramilitary operation," she explains. "Helicopters are large, dangerous objects, so we had to learn about the problems of flight path while...
...managed for news cameras, the strain that only occasionally surfaced on her heavily made-up face. When Faneuil finally appeared, a jolt of excitement was palpable in the courthouse. He proved such an engaging witness that he kept the room rapt. By the time defense attorneys got to cross-examine Faneuil on Wednesday, they badly needed to undermine his credibility...
...Elaine Richert hardly acts like an old woman. She's a yoga teacher at a Casper, Wyo., fitness center who packs her free time with cross-country skiing, hiking, volunteering for the symphony, organizing local fairs and honky-tonk dancing. In 1999, with two divorces behind her, she was looking for a boyfriend who could keep pace with her hectic schedule. She finally found someone--and he's 20 years her junior...