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...with Japan's full invasion of China, Wu returned to his native Malaysia and, since then, most of that side of my family has scattered to Singapore, Australia and the U.S., where I was born and raised. Yet last month, almost a full century later, I found myself making the same journey my great-grandfather made that winter. After flying to Beijing from my current home in Hong Kong, I headed to Harbin to attend the opening of the Wu Lien-teh Memorial Hospital and the 60th anniversary of another hospital affiliated with Harbin Medical University, one of several medical...
...short shrift from Niebank. Life after she settled in West Berlin didn't prove easy - she divorced in 1970. She has worked hard and dutifully shelled out her "solidarity taxes" to lift the eastern German economy. "We had to pay for the East," she says, "but they're full of envy." Young Germans, she says, have moved on. "My sons have absolutely no interest in history. They've never asked me about how I survived the war and they're not interested in the Wall," says Niebank. "Young people think of the future not the past." (See pictures...
...Washington A Full Plate on Capitol Hill Members of Congress returned to a busy legislative session Sept. 8 following their summer recess. Their top priority: health-care reform, an issue lawmakers heard an earful about during raucous town-hall meetings in August. The key items this fall...
...more than that. In tough economic times, we rely on sport's sense of fairness, its heroes, for much needed relief. The worlds of business and finance and politics seem to be so full of deception that we like to grasp onto the idea - naïve though this may be - that a football match or a motor race can provide a moment of liberation from all that. So when sportsmen or women cheat - scandals have sullied the image of baseball, cricket, cycling, rugby and soccer in recent times - the disservice to fans, and the damage done to sports...
...avoid a face full of bacteria each morning (Pace's team identified more than a dozen microbes other than M. avium in the showers they tested), let the shower run for a while before getting in. And remember to keep one eye open for zombies...