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...Wing Tong, a California physician, writes in another Web article, "When magnets are placed on the body, the positive and negative ions in the blood separate, physically pushing the walls of the blood vessels apart, thereby increasing blood flow to that area...
...widowed mother Betty in a Hong Kong house called, in honor of their native land, Albion Cottage. The late George Mullard left his wife and son, nicknamed Bunt, half-ownership of Imperial Stitching, a garment-manufacturing firm located in an eight-story building in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong district. The unexpected death, in early 1996, of Mr. Chuck, the refugee from China who co-founded and owns the other half of Imperial Stitching, leaves the whole shebang to the Mullards, mother and son. Their pleasure in assuming full control is dampened somewhat by the prospect of the upcoming change...
This paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher's comment after meeting Mikhail Gorbachev pretty much tips Theroux's hand in Kowloon Tong. He is aiming at broad political satire, and nearly any target will do. Both the Mullards are contemptible. She is a snob about all things British who calls the Chinese "Chinky-Chonks" and tells her host at a Chinese restaurant, "Nothing personal, but we don't touch Chinese food. Never did. All the grease, all the glue. And it's always so wet. Makes me want to spew." Bunt, for his part, is a pathetic mama...
Readers who like to take sides will not find palatable choices in Kowloon Tong. Theroux's distaste for everyone involved in his tale registers clearly and often brilliantly. But it seems reasonable to hope that his vision of the near future is unduly dyspeptic, and that fiction will be stranger than truth...
...intact Chinese ground-sluicing operations in the Pacific Northwest. Gold was discovered in Idaho's Boise Basin in 1862. Some 8,000 miners, mostly of European origin, rushed in. By 1870, Chinese miners were staking claims or purchasing or leasing them. In 1881 Hop Lee, of the Hong Lee Tong, signed a lease for a placer claim at the junction of Mores and Granite creeks. It is this site, opened in 1995 (with Simon's participation), to which the Tuckers are returning next month to take up shovels, trowels, whisk brooms and sifting screens...