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...always a drag, but Taiwan's PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN discovered last week that they can also be an embarrassment. En route to Costa Rica and Paraguay, two of a dwindling number of nations hat still have full diplomatic relations with Taiwan, Chen wanted to stop over in San Francisco or New York City. While his plane refueled, he'd get to show the Chinese leadership-which views Taiwan as a breakaway province-that he's welcome in the U.S., traditionally Taiwan's staunchest ally. But Washington, irritated by Chen's provocative stance toward Beijing, told him that only Hawaii...
...visit was just one stop on the group's $1,300 two-week "reality tour" of Chavez's Venezuela, organized by the San Francisco-based NGO Global Exchange. It was a clear sign that Venezuela, much like Cuba in the 1960s or Nicaragua in the 1980s, is fast becoming a destination for foreign leftists. As a diplomatic battle between Venezuela and the U.S. intensifies - with Washington banning any arms sales to Chavez and his government in turn threatening to sell fighter jets to Iran - Americans unhappy with the Bush Administration are eager to witness with their own eyes Chavez...
...scourge of financial illiteracy is worrisome not only for young debtors but also for their parents, many of whom are facing retirement and can't keep bailing out their kids forever. But at least one financial institution has found a way to capitalize on the problem. San Francisco-- based Wells Fargo Bank has launched an online role-playing video game aimed at teaching teens and young adults the basics of financial management--with no strings attached, although Wells Fargo wouldn't object if users ended up opening accounts at the bank. The game can be found at stagecoachisland.com and works...
...height of World War II--and his baseball career--DiMaggio enlisted in the Army. Commissioned as a sergeant and a physical-education instructor outside San Francisco, he probably received this...
...said, stating that 31 percent of the U.S. population currently lives in legal jurisdictions where transgender individuals are protected from discrimination. She said that proportion was only 5 percent in 2002. But the movement still faces challenges. Keisling said that 57 percent of transgender people in San Francisco had experienced job discrimination, a fact all the more troubling because the city is “possibly the most friendly place to be transsexual in the country.” Keisling summed up the need for self-determination in the transgender movement by telling an anecdote about three mice...