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...island. "They know all the nooks and crannies," says Marsha. "What's nice is that when you get to some of the beaches they know about, no one else is there." Each week offers a boat excursion on the ocean to observe humpback whales and a trip to the mainland to spend time at Bar Harbor's oceanarium and its lobster hatchery. Along the shore, there are walks to learn about the creatures that reside in tidal pools. Says Heider: "We turn kids on at an early age to outdoor science the way it should...
...Jiang Zemin. The investors who bolted Taiwanese equities Monday, shrinking the value of the Taipei stock market index by 2.5 percent, may have had a savvy read of the long-term implications of the election: Chen's victory defies Beijing's insistence on bringing the "rebel province" back under mainland rule in the near future - a Chinese policy document released in February set a deadline of 2007 - and that puts the onus on the Communist party leadership to up the ante...
...Beijing and Taipei has long been maintained by the "One China" policy, a sort of don't-ask-don't-tell illusion which holds that they're part of the same sovereign entity - a policy with which Taiwan's anticommunist leaders for years deluded themselves that they were the mainland?s true rulers. China, for its part, has convinced itself that Taiwan will be reincorporated under mainland rule along the same lines as Hong Kong. But whereas Hong Kong's fate was decided by its British colonial rulers, Taiwan's is in the hands of an increasingly assertive electorate...
...race. After all, military confrontation with Taiwan and the U.S. would be disastrous for China's economic reforms and the goal of attracting investment, and Beijing's reformists had hoped that their efforts, and the fact that Hong Kong has kept its economic system despite being ruled from the mainland, would coax Taipei toward reunification. But the slowdown of China's reforming economy over the past two years has raised the threat of massive unemployment and social instability, and that has led to a political resurgence of hard-liners grouped around National People's Congress chairman Li Peng, China...
...times that try diplomats' souls. Two days after relations between the United States and China were reported as finally "on the mend" after the May bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, China issued a report Feb. 21 threatening Taiwan with military attack if it delayed reunification with the mainland. The threat came at an exceedingly bad time for the Clinton administration, which is gearing up for a coming fight on China's entry into the World Trade Organization, in which it will have to counter both union opposition and new reports of Chinese human rights violations. The administration will...