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...side. They kept Cheiron's modus operandi - plenty of video-game breaks, practical jokes and the like - that PoP had instituted. And the music actually got bigger, with Martin's hits for Backstreet, Britney, Celine Dion and 'N Sync as well as huge songs from other teams, including Kristian Lun-din and Jake's Bye Bye Bye for 'N Sync, and Jörgen Elofsson, Per Magnusson and David Kreuger's Westlife singles...
...inevitable, especially from the preceding generations who feel like they've missed out and from politicians ranting about Western cultural imperialism. They don't get it. If anything, new attitudes toward sex have coincided, and melded, with greater openness in Asia across the board. Listen to Ng Man-lun, vice president of the Hong Kong Sex Education Association: "We have accepted that other aspects of life should enjoy freedom, whether it's political or academic. We can't isolate sexual freedom." Not all Asian countries enjoy Hong Kong's level of political freedom, but some do, and most Asians...
That's the prevailing philosophy, and the vast majority of Decima's clients are powerful men wanting to be manhandled by women. Psychiatry professor Ng Men-lun of the University of Hong Kong says that the desire to be submissive is not uncommon among bigwigs. "Sometimes a person has this need," he explains, "because he has dominated other people so much, he or she is bored and wants to be dominated." Remorse can be a factor too. "There may be a lot of things someone has done in a position of power that he or she feels guilty about...
...Invention According to tradition, an imperial eunuch named Cai Lun invented paper. The material, however, has been found in Chinese tombs dating to the 2nd century B.C. By the end of the 8th century, Chinese paper craftsmen had set up shop in the Middle East...
...floundering "tiger economies" of Asia. Foster envisaged it as a "horizontal cathedral," with its airy, Y-shaped passenger terminal under the great wing of its roof. It had teething troubles at first--there were cargo and passenger delays when it opened last July--but now, according to Wan Wai Lun, corporate affairs officer of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, "it's incredibly efficient and caters to the passengers' needs...