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Losers KEITH RICHARDS Calcified guitarist is upset Mick won't tour with the Stones. Keith had been practicing and was really planning to give it his all this time YAO MING The top Chinese player watches from his cramped dorm as shorter Olympic teammate Wang heads to the N.B.A. and decent housing EMINEM Britian's biggest toy retailer, Woolworths, pulls the rap star's doll from the shelves. The Flock of Seagulls playset is still widely available
...generation, including Wang's basketball-playing parents, set the ball in motion. Today, 200 million Chinese play hoops and delight in the exploits of Big Shark (Shaquille O'Neal), the Letter Deliverer (Karl Malone) and One Cent (Penny Hardaway). China even began touting its trio of homegrown goliaths?Wang, Yao Ming and Menk Batere?as the Walking Great Wall...
...Nobody will be watching Wang's moves more closely than Yao, China's other towering talent. A few months ago, bookies were betting that Yao would be the first Chinese player off the NBA bench. The 20-year-old enjoyed a breakthrough season this year and he holds outsized potential. "It's almost impossible to find a man of his size who runs the court so well," says Terry Rhoads, marketing director for Nike in China. "I could see him ending up as the No. 1 draft pick this June." But Yao's bid is caught up in capitalist wrangling...
...officials also suggested the pair's choreography, which drew inspiration from Peking opera, was too jerky for Western tastes. And the duo lacked the sexual chemistry that judges love. "We learned quickly that you have to please the judges with something they find familiar," says the duo's coach Yao Bin. "What they know is Western music and style...
...Shanghai's GDP will surpass that of Hong Kong," says Yao Xitang, president of a prestigious research institute in Shanghai. Dong Tao predicts that six years from now, Shanghai is likely to have the biggest stock market in Asia outside Japan...