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...stylish restaurant has become a favorite among the city's affluent diners, who visit for the oxtail-and-marrow risotto, the yellowfin tuna enveloped in white radish or the prawn salsa that spices up the chilled soups. Unhappily though, demand for the rooms has been slack. Even though bombings and sporadic outbreaks of fighting between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers rarely affect tourists directly, they have understandably dampened tourism, forcing Fernando to offer his 10 suites at discounted prices, beginning at $200 per night. But he is optimistic that peace will eventually come, and the guests soon...
Drug companies say the visits keep doctors educated about important new trends. But harried doctors are often persuaded to prescribe expensive new drugs, even though older drugs or generics would be just as effective. A Harvard model projects that every dollar spent on better information would yield $2 in drug savings. That's a big deal to cash-strapped states that pay a large chunk of Medicaid patients' drug costs. Thus SCORxE - South Carolina Offering Prescribing Excellence - a joint program between the state's Medicaid program and the South Carolina College of Pharmacy, which trains its pharmacist-reps to visit...
...Taiwan Strait. "I think Hu Jintao will put cross-Strait interests first because that serves Beijing's long-term strategic benefit," says Yang. "On the diplomatic front, I think Beijing will try their best not to upset the Taiwanese and send the wrong message." Indeed, unlike Chen's U.S. visit, which drew strident condemnations from China, Ma's overseas trip has thus far generated only muted reaction...
...That approach stands in stark contrast to Chen, who rankled China in 2001 by meeting with U.S. lawmakers and posing for cameras in cowboy regalia as though he was on an official state visit. China claims Taiwan as a renegade province, and thus regards diplomatic relations between Taiwan and the U.S. as an affront to Chinese sovereignty. The U.S., which acknowledges China's position but supplies Taiwan with military material, also treads cautiously, frequently denying Taiwanese leaders permission to visit the U.S. in order to avoid unnecessarily upsetting China. Ma "differs from his predecessor," says Lin Chong-pin, President...
...watching that. Three years ago when we had local elections, the same thing happened. I was so impressed and so astonished. They didn't even know the candidates. Why would they want to watch that? It just happened that in the next few days I had a chance to visit the website of the People's Daily and people sometimes leave comments on current events, I saw one saying: "Why can an ordinary Taiwanese just go to an elementary school and cast his vote. Why can't we? Are we second-class citizens?" When you look at those questions...