Word: kais
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DIED. INDRA DEVI, 102, early "yoga ambassador" to the West whose students included China's Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo; in Buenos Aires. After persuading globally renowned guru Sri Krishnamacharya to teach her (his first woman student), she traveled the world teaching her gentle brand of yoga, even prompting Russia to legalize the practice after she met with leaders...
...Cucaracha and Enamorada, Felix married four times and had numerous lovers, the painter Diego Rivera among them. In the words of President Vicente Fox: "As an artist she gave everything to Mexico." DIED. YU CHI-CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line and became a staunch advocate of reunification with China; in Taipei. DIED. MALCOLM KALP, 63, former American diplomat to Iran and one of 52 hostages held by Islamic militants for 444 days beginning...
...went down the breeze was cool and refreshing (if not always fragrant). We chugged up the river at a leisurely 6 knots and stopped for the night at Wat Kai Tia, a sleepy Thai temple on the banks of the river about 50 km from Bangkok. Our multitalented crew, who had been giving foot and head massages to the guests only minutes before, laid out a sumptuous candlelit Thai meal on the upper deck and we ate under the light of an almost full moon...
...throw from Burma is a small, mountainous corner of Thailand that might as well be in China. But you won't find portraits of Mao hanging on the walls or Little Red Books being thumbed in the village tea shops. Instead you might find battered copies of Chiang Kai-shek's memoirs, and your server will probably speak Yunnanese...
They toured the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, snapped pictures at the Lungshan Temple and wandered through the National Palace Museum, with its imperial art treasures from Beijing's Forbidden City. The 13 tourists were, in fact, not much different from millions of others who visit Taiwan. But their trip last month was historic. They were the first citizens of mainland China allowed to visit Taiwan as tourists in more than 50 years...