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...native, is part of a Canadian baseball team that has a good chance in Athens to medal in America's national pastime, partly because the Americans won't be there. The Canadian squad should be a serious contender at the eight-team tournament, along with powerful contingents from Chinese Taipei, Australia, Japan and Cuba, the perennial favorite. "I'll be disappointed if we don't win a gold medal," says manager Ernie Whitt, the former Blue Jays star. "If our players play their best, we should win it all." His high expectations stem mainly from Canada's success...
...ANNOUNCED. The permanent burial of CHIANG KAI-SHEK, former Kuomintang leader and Taiwan's first President; in Taipei. Chiang's body will be transferred from the temporary grave where it has lain since his death in 1975 to a permanent site in a military cemetery outside Taipei in early 2005. Interred alongside him will be his son and presidential successor CHIANG CHING-KUO, who died in 1988. Both men had asked to be buried in mainland China if the Nationalists ever wrested control of the country from the Communist Party...
...mitigate the impact of the challenges, both biological and social, young people have to face. The answers to the optimal planning for producing the next generation of self-sustaining citizens have important implications for our own future, because the youth of today are the adults of tomorrow. Angela Fan Taipei...
...born in Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 17, 1978 and her parents moved the family to the United States...
...Lilley is a self-described pragmatist?no surprise coming from someone who was Washington's top diplomat in both Beijing and Taipei?and he says the U.S. influences China best not through military might but through a combination of economic muscle and human interaction. "Our effort should be to bend China, not break it or change it fundamentally," Lilley says, quoting the report he filed at the end of an explosive two-year ambassadorial term in Beijing that began with the Tiananmen massacre. "Deng Xiaoping's new China was tainted because the blood of Chinese workers and students had been...