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...TIME: Are you rejecting any idea of the "one China" principle? Chen: The "one China" principle is the "one country, two systems" formula. We cannot possibly accept the "one country, two systems" formula and become a local government of the People's Republic of China. We must reject the "one China" claim...
...TIME: Do you accept the idea of eventual unification with China? Chen: Currently, there are two separate, independent countries across the Taiwan Strait, neither of which has jurisdiction over the other. But who knows if these two separate countries might become one over time? We do not exclude any possibilities for the future...
...entirely surprising that the Bush Administration last week scrambled for help in sorting out the mess. In a meeting at the White House, President Bush asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to come up with a plan for Iraqi self-rule that the country's squabbling factions could accept. A U.N. team arrived in Iraq last week to evaluate the coalition's plans for transition and assess the feasibility of holding broad-based elections before the June 30 deadline. The elections have been demanded by Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, but are resisted...
...desires. "People didn't really embrace hearing aids until they became small enough not to be embarrassing," he says. That's even more the case with something as sensitive as incontinence--a problem, like so many, that technology can help solve, but only once we're willing to accept the cure...
...Robinson seducing Benjamin in The Graduate. Now things are changing. According to a survey in AARP magazine, 34% of single women ages 40 to 69 are dating younger men. "We're seeing it more frequently than we did before, and women in particular are less likely to accept society's norms than they were before," says preventive-medicine physician Roger Landry, an expert on aging...