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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...
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
...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...
...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...
...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...