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...think eating soy foods--tofu, soy milk or miso--in moderation, a couple of times a week, should be fine. That's the advice I would take if I had breast cancer or were at risk," says Anna Wu, professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine. On the other hand, Wu doesn't recommend taking soy in pill form or as a protein powder. "We have no data on that. I would not take it as a supplement," she says...
When it comes to relations between Hong Kong and its neighbors in Guangdong, "one country, two systems" adds up to three times the bureaucracy. A perfect example is the long-delayed Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai bridge. First proposed by Hong Kong developer Gordon Wu in 1983, the bridge was mired in cross-border politics for years, but SARS and a lengthy economic slump in Hong Kong have changed that. Last week, officials from Hong Kong and Guangdong announced that a bridge-building task force would meet at the end of August?the last step before seeking a formal go-ahead...
...benefit as well. Last week, China said it would allow Guangdong residents to visit Hong Kong without having to join a group tour, and by the time the bridge is complete, Hong Kong Disneyland will be operational and Macau may have a new crop of Las Vegas-style casinos. Wu wants to name the project "Handover Bridge," an apt title for a span that could finally connect one country's two systems...
...When Wu launched Little Smart in China in 1998, few would have predicted he would gain the 18 million users the company now has. Little Smart is based on the "personal handyphone" technology that flopped in Japan in the 1990s. But Wu, who has an electrical-engineering degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, refined the system and managed to sell it to China's giant fixed-line firms, China Telecom and China Netcom, both of which wanted to grab a piece of the mobile market but have not yet been granted licenses by China's Ministry of Information...
...Wu, who arrived in Newark, N.J., for his studies in 1985 with just $27 in his pocket, is worth more than $180 million today. UTStarcom, listed on NASDAQ, has a market cap of more than $3 billion and reported $330 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2003; China accounted for about 84% of that revenue. With more than 225 million users, China is the world's largest cell-phone market. Yet there are millions more who would like to use cell phones but can't afford them. "The highest-earning 20% of Chinese are going to buy mobile...