Word: huang
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...bibliophiles. “If you are looking for a specific type of cuisine, location or restaurant, then the online guide is definitely the way to go,” preaches Sanjay Mavinkurve ’03, one-third of the tech-savvy triumvirate—along with Eddie Huang ’03 and Alex Mittendorf ’03—who programmed the site. “The advanced search is really powerful, allowing you to search based on cost, dress code, T stop, and the best picks of ‘The Unofficial Guide...
...chose a three-day trip aboard a junk called the Huang Hai. The sight of her great red cotton sails, hand-stitched with silk, was too picturesque to refuse. So it was something of a disappointment to discover the sails were pure decoration: diesel engines power the vessel. Other modernizations, however, met with wholehearted approval. Below deck, the Huang Hai is loaded with creature comforts. It has eight twin-bedded cabins with attached bathrooms and hot showers. Inside the pilot's hatch is a consoling array of gadgetry, including a global positioning satellite system. And the galley is a paneled...
...Reported by Kate Drake, Joyce Huang and Stephen Short/Hong Kong
...still breathing. Often, accident sites and hospital emergency rooms become the scenes of bloody brawls as morticians battle over access to the deceased. When family members arrive to claim their loved ones, they are presented with a bill and a choice: pay up, get lost or get hurt. Huang was asked to pay for the "storage" of her sister's "smelly" body. The only thing unusual about her case is that she didn't oblige. Most Taiwanese are too grief-stricken or scared to put up a fuss...
...Thanks in part to the public outcry that followed Huang's struggle, government officials have been fighting to clean up Taiwan's funeral business. Regulations that Chen Jeaw-mei, Taipei's director of social affairs, plans to pass on soon to the city council for approval include, for example, forcing funeral company operators to publish their prices ahead of time and to submit to regular evaluations. Some hospitals in major cities now require morticians to enter lotteries to determine which of them are given access to family members of critically ill patients...