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...tried hard to buoy its ailing economy by attracting Chinese investment. The nation's free-trade zones are dotted with apparel factories run by Chinese overlords and staffed with Chinese contract laborers. Last year, Madagascar doled out 600 visas to Chinese workers who construct everything from new roads to button-down shirts. Chinese factory owners prefer to ship in their own countrymen because, as one boss put it: "They work harder for less money." Miss Xu hails from Nanjing, the river port from which Zheng He launched his fleet. She signed up for a three-year stint in Madagascar without...
...returns. The night of Clinton's first inauguration, in January, 1993, I went to dinner in Washington with a group of media types. I sat next to a well known columnist and television talking head whom I have always thought of as the Beaking Bird: With his alert, black-button eyes and his sharp nose, he resembles that toy perpetual-motion bird forever bobbing, like a metronome, on the rim of a glass and dipping its beak, quite pointlessly, in the water...
...Palm V has been my personal religion. Not only do I have every single piece of information important to my life stashed in there, I also have it regularly backed up on my PC for safekeeping. HotSyncing is so supremely simple - stick the Palm in its cradle, press a button, and you're done in less time than it takes to read this sentence - that I do it twice a day. God of cinema seats forbid, but should I ever leave this thing to the cleaners' tender mercies in the teary-eyed aftermath of another screwball comedy, my life would...
...officials to begin to notice. In California regulators moved to revoke the licenses of nine facilities run by Regent Assisted Living Inc. after Lucille Giroux, 79, bled to death in her rocking chair at Sunnyside Court in Fremont. According to the state's investigation, she twice pressed her call button and no one came; Regent says no call for help was made. In Falls Church, Va., a 93-year-old woman was killed in May when, after she fell down outside, her facility's van ran over her. Lawmakers in Virginia are re-evaluating the state's regulations...
...secretly installs a bar code in each PDA so when his reps visit retail shops, they can detect when distributors poach on one another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button and the detailed files of some 300,000 criminal suspects are just a tap away. Given the size of China's vast law-and-order bureaucracy, Zhang hopes eventually to sell several hundred thousand Police PDAs to the security ministry. Next up, says Zhang, is a medical PDA that will store...