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...DIED. TIZIANO TERZANI, 65, best-selling author and veteran foreign correspondent for Der Speigel, who covered Vietnam, Cambodia and China in the early Deng Xiaoping era; in Florence, Italy. In his book A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East, the Italian-born Terzani detailed his adventures in 1993, when he traveled Asia by land and sea after receiving a warning from a Hong Kong mystic that he might die in an airplane crash that year...
Running around Seoul and looking for food to go? Then you're spoiled for choice. Street vendors in the South Korean capital tempt passersby with a tasty, Technicolor range of snacks, of which the most popular is o-deng. It has the consistency of a sausage, a distinct salty flavor, and is rumored to be made of fish. (Just don't ask what part-explanations from Koreans range from "the fishy part" to a blunt "I don't know.") Another favorite, and one of less obscure provenance, is duk bok gi-rice noodles as thick as cigars, smothered...
...through a combination of economic muscle and human interaction. "Our effort should be to bend China, not break it or change it fundamentally," Lilley says, quoting the report he filed at the end of an explosive two-year ambassadorial term in Beijing that began with the Tiananmen massacre. "Deng Xiaoping's new China was tainted because the blood of Chinese workers and students had been spilled," he writes. "June 4 would not slide inconsequentially into the backwaters of history...
...youngest of four sons, took over the company in 1964, he moved aggressively into poultry farming. A tie-in with Arbor Acres Farm of the U.S. added new technology and the concept of vertical integration--from feed to fowl to distribution, retail and fast-food outlets. And when Deng Xiaoping began the first capitalist reforms in China in 1978, CP was literally first in the door...
...first-ever SARS outbreak, and many were clinicians who had watched patients wither, suffocate and die from the disease. Of these physicians, the most powerful was Dr. Zhong Nanshan, 67, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. Famous for having been a physician to China's late leader Deng Xiaoping, Zhong had also pioneered the earliest clinical treatments of SARS, emerging as the doctor most associated with fighting, and eventually defeating, the disease. He is the best-known doctor in the mainland--and the most intimidating. One World Health Organization (WHO) official described him as being "like...