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...Just as he has his finger on the musical pulse of fandom, Martin also grasps what his artists want to sing. That doesn't happen by chance. Before he starts writing for Spears, he talks with her, sees her shows and finds out what's in her CD player. "I want the input because that makes the chemistry of the song," he says. Meanwhile, he records ideas on a Dictaphone he carries with him. His self-imposed quality-control regime means that only one idea in 300 gets to demo-recording stage. "You have to be a mass murderer...
...With freedom comes responsibility - or heartache on a possibly very large scale. Sex education throughout the region, controlled by all those fogies, is of the "The penis is a finger-like organ ..." school. The young and the restless of Asia need wisdom if the region is to avoid teen pregnancies and an HIV epidemic. "I first had sex when I was 20," recalls Jiraporn Thepitak, a sexually active single woman in Bangkok. "When I go back to my home village, I see that girls are already having sex when they are 15 and 16. Before, everyone used to think...
...three years after they got married. That was back in 1974, when they were young Red Guards tilling the unforgiving earth in remote Gansu province. "We got married for convenience," says Zhu. "Now I get to live my life for myself." She sips her bordeaux and crooks a finger at a well-muscled specimen circling the bar. As he starts approaching, she takes a last puff of her cigar and grins: "It's wonderful being a modern Chinese woman...
After a heart attack, you feel as if someone has broken into the house in the middle of the night. You know there is a killer waiting in the dark basement. You imagine him mounting the stairs with a knife in his hands. You finger the tiny glass cylinder of nitro as if it were Kryptonite. You rub the middle of your chest and feel the bumpy scars where the bone was wired back together after bypass...
...places tons of pressure on the family unit, within which there's always plenty of emotional inventory anyway. But growth is a huge problem too, and managing it presents family firms with rosier but no less complex issues. "My brother-in-law and I were giving each other the finger. Nobody was showing up for Easter dinner," recounts Park Kerr, chairman and founder of the El Paso Chile Co., a $10 million-a-year specialty-food company that sells salsas and snacks to the likes of Williams Sonoma and Neiman Marcus. "Dealing with change in a family business--everything...