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...cause. Prior to the attack, the country's economy was growing modestly. Analysts now are cutting their forecasts. Chatib Basri sliced his 2003 GDP forecast from 4.4% to 3.7%. (The World Bank estimates that Indonesia needs at least 6% growth to create enough jobs for its burgeoning workforce.) Daniel Lian, an economist at investment house Morgan Stanley, says economic revival throughout Southeast Asia could be jeopardized if investors shun the region. As a result, he says, "Economies would be further marginalized and geopolitical risks raised in a vicious cycle...
...noon on Saturday our local gourmand comes around to guide us to lunch. Xiao Gugu ushers us into an inconspicuous little dive, explaining that when Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian wants to treat foreign dignitaries to authentic local dishes, he brings them to this charming place?the Lian Hsin Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant on Hsinsheng North Road; call (886-2) 2560-1950 for reservations. Xiao Gugu orders a flurry of dishes. First out is xueyu (snow jade) doufu, a two-tone brick of bean curd, green on top, white on the bottom. The top "jade" layer gets its color from...
Just as there are two types of families, sad and happy ones, there are two types of radio talk shows, strident and chatty ones. The Satellite Sisters belong in the latter category in both instances. Five sisters (Julie, 46, Liz, 44, Sheila, 43, Monica, 42, and Lian, 36), or half the entire Dolan family, they can be heard cheerfully chewing the fat every week on public radio...
...university students are playing out their own version of Sino-American relations on the computer screen. Their video-game bloodthirst reflects a surging patriotism among Chinese youth and an increasing frustration with perceived American arrogance. "After the Soviet Union fell, the U.S. thought it could do anything," says Zhang Lian, a freshman at prestigious Peking University. "We Chinese have the responsibility to tell them...
...Through Lian's bright eyes, China during the Cultural Revolution often seems more deranged than consciously brutal. To mention food, drink or sex is to invite charges of bourgeois decadence. Students are required to master the denunciation article, a form Lian describes as "a slanging match between a couple of fishwives." Villages have names like Communism Is Best Without a Doubt...