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Korea's short-track speed-skating champion Kim Dong Sung will be celebrating his 22nd birthday on the ice during the Games. It's a fitting site. Kim, who won gold at the Nagano Olympics (plus a silver in the 5,000-m relay as a spare), has hardly left the rink since he took up skating at the age of eight, because it looked "like...
...enhancing the interest of Richard Li, scion of the super-rich Li family, because Richard drew up the plan. Even critics acknowledge, however, that diversification is a good idea. "Hong Kong needs more than one pillar industry to sustain its economic glory, and infotech is a new one," says Dong Tao, a senior China analyst for the Credit Suisse First Boston bank. But Shanghai too is trying to seize the commanding heights of the information age: each year the city produces 4,000 computer-science graduates to supply the demand of the growing Internet market...
...Shanghai's GDP will surpass that of Hong Kong," says Yao Xitang, president of a prestigious research institute in Shanghai. Dong Tao predicts that six years from now, Shanghai is likely to have the biggest stock market in Asia outside Japan...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Ding dong the ethnic cleanser's gone. Slav brothers wary of asylum. You're no Idi Amin...
...phytoestrogens have become popular alternatives to standard HRT. Sales of supplements that contain soy isoflavones, a form of phytoestrogen, tripled from 1998 to 1999. Some women also take vitamin E for hot flashes, while others are turning to remedies based on such exotics as black cohosh, flaxseed, red clover, dong quai and wild...