Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yuan Tsai...
Like so many talented young taiwanese, Yuan T. Lee came to the U.S. to study, and then to stay. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He climbed the academic ladder. Eventually, he won a Nobel Prize. Then earlier this year, at the peak of his career, the 57-year- old chemist made a sweeping U-turn and headed back home to run Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica, a burgeoning collection of 21 research institutes...
...departure of such a distinguished scientist signals a dramatic change: the brain drain that has enriched the West with tens of thousands of Asia's best and brightest minds has begun to flow in the opposite direction. The Yuan T. Lees of tomorrow still flock to elite North American and European universities for advanced degrees, but more and more they are seeking employment in Asia, where opportunities to pursue careers in research are expanding almost as fast as sales of designer clothes and cellular phones...
...Hanshin Tigers. Tuesday: League-leading hitter Ichiro Suzuki, left, of the Orix Blue Wave (second place, Pacific League) smacks the 200th hit of his record-breaking season in a 6-5 win over the Chiba Lotte Marines. Thursday: The Tigers lose again, 4-0, as Chunichi Dragons pitcher Kuo Yuan-tzu becomes only the fifth hurler in besuboru history to win 100 career games. Friday: The once mighty Giants lose, 1-0, to the fifth-ranked Yokohama Bay Stars, forcing a tight pennant race with the second-place Hiroshima Carp and third-place Dragons...
Morale has only deteriorated further since then, opening opportunities -- and hazards -- for a new generation of independent labor organizers. In late February, two of those activists, law student Wang Jiaqi and Beijing University law professor Yuan Hongbing, wrote the founding charter for a new, free trade union, called the League for the Protection of Working People's Rights. Yuan and Wang were arrested March 2; Wang later escaped and is now in the U.S. The labor charter was presented to the Ministry of Civil Affairs March 9 by a third dissident, Liu Nianchun, a veteran of the 1979 Democracy Wall...