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...HENRY TANG The 50-year-old textile tycoon was plucked from the private sector last year by Tung to become his Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology. The word around town is that he's ambitious and desperately wants the top job. But several embarrassing gaffes (the 1997 financial crisis was "very good" for Hong Kong) and his lack of political experience may preclude his ascent...
SPRITE REMIX with this clear, carbonated beverage, the folks at Sprite, inspired by hip-hop, have created a kind of tropical-dance remix of their traditional lemony soda. It's fruity with a slight tang...
...next book (working title: Magical Thinking). With all this normality, is he running out of material? "Catastrophes seem to find me," he says. "I grew up in a little town in nowhere, Massachusetts, and one day these men rolled up in a black van and started casting a Tang commercial..." It should be a while before he runs dry. --By Lev Grossman
...tragic face of the SARS epidemic in Taiwan doesn't belong to a patient or a politician, or even to a doctor or a nurse. Instead, the most vivid expression of this outbreak's impact can be found on an eight-year-old girl, Tang Chia-ru, who wears her hair in pigtails and, when given the choice, prefers noodles to rice. Last Friday, she stood behind her father fidgeting with her face mask and staring at the swarm of photographers who surrounded her and at the smiling face of her mother who looked down from a picture frame hanging...
...late, though, for eight-year-old Chia-ru. Her father, Tang Se-hu, says she is still trying to comprehend the loss of her mother and misses the trips she used to make to the hospital where, he says, "her mom was always working." He adds, "she knows her mom helped care for people and saved lives." When she's older she will no doubt wish that someone had taken more care with her mother's life...