Word: suis
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...story begins with an elderly Toronto couple who spent 10 days in Hong Kong. Kwan Sui-chu, 78, and her husband began a visit to the city on Feb. 13 and stayed one night at the Metropole Hotel. Kwan almost certainly had a chance encounter there with a retired Chinese nephrologist named Liu Jianlun, who, it turns out, had SARS. After her return to Toronto on Feb. 23, Kwan passed the disease to members of her family, including her son Tse. At Scarborough Grace, he was placed in a corner bed of the E.R.'s observation ward. Next...
...after three people who had recently been in Hong Kong and six others who'd been in close contact with them since their return were struck ill. The disease has continued to jump borders with terrifying rapidity: last Friday, medical officials in Toronto announced that a woman named Kwan Sui-chu had died in the city on March 5, shortly after returning from Hong Kong, and that five of her relatives?who had not been to Hong Kong recently?were also ill. One, Chi Kwai Tse, died on March...
...them these days are stylemakers who, instead of cross-stitching throw pillows, are creating fashion accessories such as belts, purses and bracelets, often decorated with their names or cutesy icons like ladybugs or mushrooms. Stitched pansy purses designed by needlepoint doyenne Erica Wilson were featured in designer Anna Sui's latest runway show, inspiring trendsetters to take up the needle. Sales of needlepoint purse kits are up in some craft shops, and fashionable boutiques are selling needlepoint bracelets. British artist Sonja Todd has even created postage-stamp-size stitched canvases that re-create the art from classic record-album covers...
...Hong Kong women come despite clean, government-approved alternatives at home. Paul Yip Sui-fai of the University of Hong Kong's statistics and actuarial science department says that thousands are making the quick trip across the border for a cheap, painless procedure. Adds Angela Pau, spokeswoman for the Hong Kong Family Planning Association: "Almost one-third of women we surveyed admitted to going to the mainland for abortions...
...gangsta rap, sweeps into the New York City radio station Hot 97 with the same you-can't-stop-me air Allen Iverson has when he steps onto a basketball court. She's dressed way past the nines--she's hovering around the elevens--in purple boots, purple Anna Sui leather pants and a black mink coat. Her hair, once platinum blond, is arranged in cornrows dyed a shade of red that almost makes the braids appear to glow, like space-heater coils. Eve does an on-air interview hyping her new CD, Scorpion (Ruff Ryders/Interscope), and then records...