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Those are some of the locations where James Tseng plied his trade for 34 years, sinking as low as providing all-purpose Chinese buffets before returning home to reclaim his roots with a vengeance. At James Kitchen Big Secret, tel: (886-2) 2343 2275, on Yongkang Street's restaurant row (and at James Kitchen Small Secret, a nearby storefront that takes the inevitable overflow) the menus are primers of the island's homespun culinary techniques. Expect soups and stews that are a tangy mélange of dried fish, cabbage and pumpkin, supplemented by clams and grilled-whole local catches...
...Some smaller commercial banks have started experimenting with lending to small businesses, says Du. Other initiatives include websites that provide a sort of online credit market, where parties looking to make or take out loans can post terms and find deals online. But so far the volume is low and the terms are prohibitive. "There are many more approaches we have yet to explore, and we shouldn't be limited to one single model," Du says...
...troop is in low spirits. We decide to salve the wound of this failed mission with breakfast. We set up camp in the sun. Bagels and cream cheese all around. What's done is done...
...bite out of community hospitals' bottom lines, a quick scan of the list of the common procedures performed at the highly focused institutions suggests just that. Orthopedic and cardiac care bring in some of the highest margin reimbursements from insurers, money community hospitals use to cover the cost of low-margin or money-losing services like burn units, neonatal care and treating the uninsured. When healthier, fully insured patients migrate away from community hospitals to specialty facilities, their reimbursements go with them. Overall profit margins at specialty hospitals, sometimes as high as 30%, dwarf those of community hospitals. Plus, specialty...
...atonement in politics, Arguello found controversy and ridicule. He was accused of winning by fraud and lampooned as a bumbling fool. The media dubbed him the "mayor appointed by the Supreme Electoral Council," and insinuated that his office was incompetent and corrupt - charges that would have felt like a low blow to a man who had prided himself on his transparency and ability to get things done...