Word: kais
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...success in America, part of an influx of foreign-born scientists and engineers who helped propel the U.S. to R.-and-D. dominance in the 1980s and '90s. Hai Lin, 30, got a Ph.D. from the New Jersey Institute for Technology in 1996, while his future colleague at Lucent, Kai Xu, 33, got a doctorate in 1995 from Rutgers. Both found work through a technology-employment firm that places talented technicians with companies that need their expertise. For two years they worked as "distinguished members" of Lucent's staff, making six-figure salaries and settling into comfortable lives in suburban...
...nurse; they refused, so the hero killed himself. For 22 years Zheng's followers ruled their Taiwan redoubt independently, fighting the Qing navy until finally surrendering. Sound familiar? History began to come full circle in 1949, when Chairman Mao's peasant army drove the Kuomintang forces of Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan; today Chiang's successors increasingly lean toward an existence separate from the mainland. Stay tuned...
...summer of 1954, air-crew briefing rooms at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport were abuzz with reports of construction at an air base near Sanya, a town at the southern tip of China's Hainan island. To date, the runway had been all bitumen, a surface suited to propeller aircraft but given to melting if hit by jet exhausts. Suddenly, concrete sections appeared at each end. Pilots flying along aviation routes past Hainan could see new, jet-fighter-sized dispersal bays under construction. One Cathay Pacific Airways pilot suggested to a Hong Kong official that, in view...
...viewer is becoming part of the program," says Kai Hübers, channel manager for Europe Online and co-developer of Now or Never, which will appear as streaming video on the Internet this month. By autumn, people will be able to participate in the show on either a PC or a television; the web content and the television programming will be fused...
Shih then tracked down the Internet account used by Sadistic Dog. This led her to a Taipei resident named Chen, who disclosed that his former lover occasionally used his account. A month to the day after the suitcase appeared, detectives arrested Liao Chien-kai, an unemployed 25-year-old. After 20 hours of questioning, Liao admitted he had met Lin in the chatroom and arranged to get together for rough sex, though Lin had stated on line that he had "no experience" of such activities. They met at the bank and from there returned to Liao's apartment...