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...watch out for in 2004? Which is rock's next breakout band? What are the cool gadgets we'll have to buy? And who determines what's cool, anyway? What's the hot toy we won't be able to buy at Christmas? Will China export another Yao Ming? Which miracle drugs are about to hit the market? Which new technologies will make us safer? What will we find on Mars? Where do Bono and Spielberg think we're heading? For all this and more, come with us on a journey to the near future
Maybe not. But Yi Jianlian had better get used to the lofty expectations. A lot of people on both sides of the Pacific are hoping that the talented 6-ft. 11-in. teenager will be the next Yao Ming. Ever since Yao electrified the National Basketball Association last season as a rookie fresh out of Shanghai, a slew of agents, scouts and shoe-company reps have been looking for a Chinese player who can follow the large--and lucrative--footsteps of one of the league's biggest draws. Yi wears size-18 shoes, just like...
...urban landscape in America. He marveled at the brightly illuminated replicas of the Eiffel Tower, the Manhattan skyline, the dazzling fountains of Rome. "Las Vegas is the most beautiful city in the world," he said, "especially at night." A red-faced American tourist broke the reverie. "Hey, Yao Ming!" the man shouted. "Yao Ming, you da man!" It was the last thing the Chinese athlete wanted to hear. He gave a tight smile and then, as politely as he could, he recited one of the few English phrases he has committed to memory: "I am not Yao Ming...
...seal the victory--and secure Guangdong's place atop the standings. Two weeks later, when Guangdong played the army team for the CBA championship, the stands were crawling with sports agents and shoe-company representatives, all fixated on the big kid on the bench. "It's partly the Yao Ming effect," said a shoe-company executive. "But Yi Jianlian is so promising we would have pursued him anyway." Yi played sparingly in the game, but he offered a fitting capstone to the season, stealing an inbounds pass in the final seconds for a breakaway jam. At the team's postgame...
...also a Crimson editor, graduated with a degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy—after shifting focuses a number of times—and held a wide variety of interests, said his close friend Ming H. Chen...