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...interest of Richard Li, scion of the super-rich Li family, because Richard drew up the plan. Even critics acknowledge, however, that diversification is a good idea. "Hong Kong needs more than one pillar industry to sustain its economic glory, and infotech is a new one," says Dong Tao, a senior China analyst for the Credit Suisse First Boston bank. But Shanghai too is trying to seize the commanding heights of the information age: each year the city produces 4,000 computer-science graduates to supply the demand of the growing Internet market...
...Shanghai's GDP will surpass that of Hong Kong," says Yao Xitang, president of a prestigious research institute in Shanghai. Dong Tao predicts that six years from now, Shanghai is likely to have the biggest stock market in Asia outside Japan...
Coloroso's book, which also covers divorce and illness, is a true self-help book, and she is an adherent of pop-psych locutions. The "five S's" of suicide and murder, she says, are "stigma, shame, secrets, silence and sin." The "TAO" of family is an acronym for the three things we need when our lives are thrown into chaos: time, affection and optimism. Some of Coloroso's observations are wise; others will be annoying to those less inclined toward this approach. But it's hard to quibble with her favorite formulation: "Life is not fair. Life hurts. Life...
...After a run, you definitely feel more refreshed and ready to do things," says Andrea R. Tao '02, a Winthrop House resident. "Oftentimes you're better off going to the gym and then coming back to do a problem set. Otherwise you sit down to do the problem set and end up feeling groggy...
...Tao argues that very few students get together to play team sports on an informal basis...