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...what may prove to be an epochal experiment in social engineering. Yang says his goal in Sinuiju is "to merge the economy of North Korea into the world economy. That's the only way to eliminate hatred and bring peace to Northeast Asia." He compares North Korea to a miner climbing to the surface after a long day in the tunnels and finding the sun painful to his eyes. "North Korea has been closed for 50 years," he says. "You have to give them light bit by bit." China's Orchid King wants his drab new homeland to reach...
...your basic, impossible 24/7 task. Fortunately, 31 years with Customs in Detroit has taught Anderson a thing or two about spotting liars. He is a classic American character with a deep faith and a laconic style inherited from his coal-miner father. Colleagues saw zero change in him after Sept. 11. "Doing it over 30 years, he doesn't get rattled," says his friend Bill Wisman, chief inspector for passenger-vehicle operations at the bridge and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. "All I've seen in him," says his wife Linda, "is greater determination." On April 26, Linda awoke around...
Forecasting can even save lives. Analyzing variables from claims, patient surveys and lab tests, health plan Hawaii Medical Associates of Honolulu identifies which of its 40,000 diabetic members are most likely to end up in the hospital. A consultant's software program, Enterprise Miner from SAS Institute, based in Cary, N.C., sometimes finds patterns that don't appear in any medical textbook. "Someone with high cholesterol, diabetes and one hospitalization may not be at the same risk as a person with the same profile on a certain type of medication," says medical director Richard Chung, "but the program would...
DIED. JOSHUA MINER, 81, educator who launched the U.S. version of the wilderness self-reliance program Outward Bound; in Andover, Mass. Miner--who had met founder Kurt Hahn in Scotland in 1950--began in Colorado in 1961 with 80 teenagers; 600,000 students, including former President Jimmy Carter, have since taken the course...
...strength and a fall-away jump shot, which allowed him to keep opponents on his hip and then finish them off without attacking the rim. After winning his sixth championship, he retired again. In his third career, Jordan is using his vast experience, the work ethic of a coal miner and the authority of a CEO (he was president of the Wizards' basketball operations until he re-signed as a player) to show the baby Wizards how to win and, if he has to on occasion, to take the game into his own hands...