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...white presidential Sikorsky lifts off from Nantou air force base, he considers the evolution he must make from brilliant lawyer and astute politician to wise leader and great man. It is a question raised by the very aspirations of his people and the potential of his state: Is Chen Shui-bian good enough, wise enough, man enough, to take Taiwan where it deserves to go? The helicopter takes flight, pushing the President back into his silver seat. He looks even smaller than his 1.65 m. His wire-frame glasses and white windbreaker and silver-gray slacks make him appear delicate...
...Chen Shui-bian will face a mandate on his presidency in early December when all 225 seats of the Legislative Yuan come up for grabs. Until now, Chen's ability to push through a legislative program and stamp a new imprint on Taiwanese society has been stymied by the KMT's hold on a majority of parliamentary seats. His own DPP controls barely one-third of the seats. Since no party is likely to win a majority in the vote, taking 80 or 85 seats in the Yuan would be a crucial gain for Chen and his DPP. It would...
Taiwan is Chinese politics packed into an explosive package. For 50 years, Beijing has been married to the return of Taiwan. Negotiation seemed the best solution until last year when pro-independence candidate Chen Shui-bian won election in Taipei. The win shocked Beijing. The professional Taiwan watchers there, who failed to call the outcome, were suddenly looking for new jobs. Enter Zhou. When he arrived in the U.S. for quiet talks with the new Administration, Zhou carried Beijing's latest ideas on Taiwan, polished by his modern sensibilities, though still hewn from the rough stone of Chinese insistence...
...STARTED First came feng shui. Then aromatherapy. But burned-out consumers wanted more...
...thousands of years, feng-shui practitioners have used the sound of running water to dissolve negative energy. Modern psychologists describe the constant gurgling as "white noise" that drowns out distractions. On the basis of such notions, the same companies that ushered in aromatherapy are now cranking out Zen-inspired relaxation tools, dubbed "calming pools" and "serenity ponds." And consumers are buying into the idea that burbling rock gardens are effective stress relievers. Americans purchased more than a million of them in 1999, and sales are expected to top 5 million this year...