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...shrugs. The sex toy king of China doesn't judge. It's bad for business. With his crew cut, oversize glasses, blue jeans and phlegmatic manner, 33-year-old Wu looks like a teenager slouching in the back of sex-ed class?but he's an empire builder emblematic of China's growing entrepreneurial class. His company, headquartered in the industrial city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, is China's only major government- licensed erotica manufacturer. The plant daily pumps out some 10,000 sex toys destined for bedroom drawers worldwide, but Wu and his Japanese venture partner have grander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: XXX Factor | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Perhaps. But his faith in WorldCom was and is classic Ebbers, and many individual shareholders find it endearing. To hold on to more of his WorldCom stock, he recently sold a favorite toy: a 60-ft. yacht he had named Aquasition. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/Ocean Springs

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rise And Fall Of Bernie Ebbers | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...united front against Saddam. Congressmen in the House believe the administration is waiting only for the Arab-Israeli conflict to cool and for weapons stocks depleted by the Afghan war to be replenished before it launches a military attack on Iraq. "By January of this year the Pentagon's toy box was empty," says a senior House foreign policy aide in close touch with the National Security Council. "But when it gets filled they attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling the Saddam Attack to Skeptical Senators | 5/7/2002 | See Source »

...Taiwanese hit, Eat Drink Man Woman; in Taipei. Lung achieved international acclaim for his roles in Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all helmed by Oscar-nominated director, Ang Lee. (See Eulogy). DIED. RUTH HANDLER, 85, co-founder of the Mattel toy company and creator of the world's most popular doll, Barbie; in Los Angeles. The blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie was named after Handler's daughter Barbara, and since its introduction in 1959 more than 1 billion dolls have been sold in more than 150 countries. INDICTED. JAYSON WILLIAMS, 34, the former NBA forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...does have a small cheese factor. He is not quite dark and mysterious in his red and blue tights, but there are two things that save him from a Captain America brand of cheesiness. One is his plain likability. Spidey’s a trickster who likes to toy with his victims but not destroy them. He has a heart. He is the underdog who got a shot at greatness, and so many scrawny geeks can look at him and hope that someday, a genetically mutated dragonfly/wasp/scorpion will bite them. Spidey is the likable dork who got the girl...

Author: By Stephanie L. Lim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Along Came a Spider | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

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