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Winners WANG ZHIZHI Chinese hoopster joins Dallas Mavericks. Will he procreate as freely as his fellow N.B.A.ers or stick to China's one child policy? QUINCY JONES Mega-producer named a commander of French Legion of Honor, dons funny cap and epaulets. No, wait, that's the French Foreign Legion JIM SHEKHDAR English rower crosses Pacific under his own power, swimming last 50 meters. Upends all clich?s by having a beer as soon he makes land...
...player--height. In search of verticality, the long arm of U.S. basketball recruiting has stretched out in the past two decades from Australia (the Phoenix Suns' 7-ft. 2-in. Luc Longley) to Yugoslavia (the Sacramento Kings' 7-ft. 1-in. Vlade Divac) and now, gingerly, to China. Wang Zhizhi--who shoots like a dream and dribbles pretty nimbly--has the one thing that NBA scouts know even four years of NCAA ball could never give him--7 ft. 1 in. Says Dale Brown, who tried unsuccessfully to lure him to Louisiana State: "Wang is ready for the NBA right...