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...distant to scout for talent. Wednesday a phalanx of NBA executives, desperate to find someone - anyone - to match up with Shaquille O'Neal, gathered at a small gymnasium in Chicago to evaluate another young 7-footer with surprising agility and a soft touch - 7' 5" Chinese national treasure Yao Ming, whose long-anticipated journey to the NBA has been complicated by, among other things, the China-U.S. spy-plane standoff in 2001. (Thus does globalization overcome borders...
...stick to strict scientific disciplines. What the students can describe is what it feels like to be the only girl in a room full of 20 eager-to-please male organic chemistry students. “I would inevitably be the only woman there,” says Yao Liu ’04, a chemistry concentrator who is the current president of WISHR. “That sort of discouraged me from going.” Liu is certainly conscious of the gender imbalance in the sciences, but she says the skewed demographics have not negatively impacted her experience...
...Chinese Basketball Association games has been rising steadily and is on pace to break 600,000 this season. Valuable sponsors are eager to plaster their logos on team jerseys and arena signboards. Homegrown superstars are emerging, such as rangy prodigies Hu Weidong, a crowd-pleasing Jiangsu Dragons forward, and Yao Ming, a 2.23-m windmill who regulates the paint for the Shanghai Sharks. Showtime in the CBA has all the trappings of big-time hoops. It's becoming a credible entertainment replete with thunderjams, jiggly cheerleaders and thousands of screaming spectators...
...dreams fall the hardest. Last Friday, YAO MING, China's 2.25-m basketball prodigy, was kept from entering the NBA draft. U.S. scouts had tipped the 21-year-old as a No. 1 pick. It wasn't Yao's first disappointment. Last year, he was barred by Chinese sports officials from attending the Nike hoop summit?where the best young stars show off their skills?because of outsized obligations to the Olympic squad. This time around, though, the decision turned less on national politics than simple economics. In exchange for releasing their imposing center, the Shanghai Sharks wanted an estimated...
...Even if Wang and Yao make it in the NBA, the nation has only one other prospective dazzler in the wings?Inner Mongolian Menk Batere. It may take another decade for China's basketball machine to produce a full crop of giant exports. The NBA, which touts itself as the "world's greatest league," is restrained about China's potential. In terms of NBA revenue, the nation lags far behind Japan and Taiwan. When Wang's debut was broadcast on state television last Friday, crowds gathered in Beijing to cheer on their native son. Several die-hard fans sported brand...