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...watched as the collective pressure of a wedding transforms normally reasonable folk into lunatics. But Chien-Chi Chang has taken that experience a step further?he's making art out of the insanity. In his 2002 book I Do, I Do, I Do, the Taiwan-born, New York-based photographer cast a jaundiced eye on the florid excesses of the wedding industry in his native island: the countless gaudy outfits thrown on and off for the wedding portrait, the banquet dinner that could fill the hangar of an aircraft carrier. Chang's perceptive photos showed the ordinary, exhausted people buried...
...Brokered marriages across borders are not unusual in Asia. The wives of many Japanese farmers, for example, are mail-order brides from the Philippines. But the Taiwan-Vietnam connection has proved particularly robust, yielding some 80,000 such couplings over the past decade. Chang followed the men to Ho Chi Minh City, where they're shown an array of young women preselected by marriage agencies. If a man chooses one of the girls and she accepts, it's a very brief engagement?the wedding usually takes place within three days. This is matrimony at its most mercantile: sucking in strangers...
...everything." The other two major types of activity--strength training and stability (or balance) exercises--come into greater play as you get older. You don't necessarily have to do separate exercises for each category, especially when you're young. Indeed, some of the best physical routines--like Tai Chi or rock climbing--combine two or more approaches. But expect to change the mix as you move through the decades of your life...
...Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates. Yoga is an ancient Indian discipline that links stretching exercises, breathing and meditation through the repetition of a series of poses, or asanas. Tai Chi is a slow-motion Chinese martial art designed to increase the chi, or life energy. Pilates is a muscle- lengthening program developed in Germany in the 1920s...
...death rate could mean that this process of adaptation is accelerating. "In gaining the ability to go from one person to another, a virus may well lose its virulence," says Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City. The 1918 Spanish flu, for example, the worst pandemic in history, had a fatality rate of 2.5%. But it was extremely contagious, infecting hundreds of millions...