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...Like any other, the resulting marriages can be heaven or hell. "The husbands fall into two extremes," says Keh Yu-ling, director of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation which serves the new immigrants, "simple shy guys who dote on their wives, or men with no respect for women." Fan had a taste of both. Her husband was sweet, she said, until he lost his job and began abusing her. When he broke her rib, she divorced him. Fan is grateful, however, for her freedom and the custody of her daughter. Of her ex-husband, she says, "We do our part...
...powerful human urge to procreate. Some 100 women ages 50 and older have borne children in the U.S., and so have many more in other countries. In fact, the 60-year-old barrier has been broken several times. Last spring, a 63-year-old California woman named Arceli Keh gave birth (she had allegedly lied to the clinic about her age); so, in 1994, did an Italian woman...
...Nobody's tried it in 70- or 80-year-olds yet," says Dr. Richard Paulson, head of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Southern California, where Keh was a patient, "but at present there's no evidence of an upper age limit." Inevitably, the prospect of using their own eggs, frozen years before, rather than a donor's genetically foreign eggs, will only increase the number of older women who want to give birth...
...good financial books explain, one's earning capacity is not at its peak. So for ARCELI KEH, better known to most people as the Woman Who Had a Baby at 63, the obvious way to put aside a little nest egg for her daughter was to sell her story, complete with interview, home videos and family snapshots. After a quick but brutal media race, the National Enquirer emerged victorious, handing over a six-figure sum to the Keh family, who told the magazine they would like to have another child. Then, after the dust had cleared, a new bidding...
MYTHS. Many blacks believe Korean merchants have unfair advantages, drawing start-up funds from the South Korean government. In fact, most immigrants acquire their shops largely with savings they brought from Korea. They enjoy the tradition of the keh, clubs to which they contribute and from which they can draw loans. In New York City the 2,500-member Korean Produce Association has the clout to buy good produce at favorable prices. But few greengrocers are truly prosperous. They put their entire families to work at low, if any, wages, toil incredibly long hours and still average between...