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...every so often Westerners rediscover its riches. "China, and its abundant heritage, offers boundless inspiration," says Stanislas de Quercize, president and CEO of Cartier, whose company this April launched a new line, Le Baiser du Dragon (The Kiss of the Dragon) with designs invoking Chinese openwork screens and fen ling wind bells. Cartier's diamond wish-knot pendant has already sold out. Sophie Albou, founder of Paul & Joe, a French clothing line, claims Japan as the primary influence for her most recent collection: "People always gravitate to Japanese floral prints, as the colors are so beautiful." --By Isabel C. Gonzalez
...Equally troubling, Wang and another nurse, Lo Wen-ling, 27, claim that a more senior nurse in their intestinal-disease ward instructed them to list suspected SARS patients as suffering from "pneumonia." They say they were also ordered not to tell the patients' families that the true diagnosis was believed to be SARS. If contacted by the media, adds Lo, she was ordered to say that "there were no SARS patients in Hoping." These instructions, claims Wang, were said to have come from "high up"?meaning upper management...
...nice lunch with blockmates, then Ling section, where my TF was like “Wow, I can’t believe you actually came.” And then after about 10 minutes he decided he wasn’t feeling well and we all went home. That class is a joke...
...little to reduce splittist behavior. Sociology professor Ku Chung-hwa says marriages are on the rocks because women are no longer willing to be the junior partner. "Taiwanese women nowadays enjoy higher autonomy, and such individualism and feminism is in conflict with the traditional family structure." Huang Chang-ling, vice president of the feminist Awakening Foundation, argues that the class should put more emphasis on gender equality, "otherwise it'll be meaningless." Couples needing a model of marital longevity, however, need look no further than their compatriots Liu Yung-yang and Yang Wan, whose 85-year union makes them...
...plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France and Malta last month; in Eindhoven last week a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin was apprehended for allegedly plotting a suicide strike - but nothing crippling to the terrorist enterprise as a whole. The evidence was compel- ling enough for the former director of the German intelligence service, Hans-Georg Wieck, to conclude that Hanning's warning was justified. "You don't make a statement like that just to make people vigilant, otherwise you lose credibility," he says. "They've got something." But what? And is it enough...