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...deer is said to cure hangovers, and a sizeable wild deer's penis reputedly does wonders for the underwhelming man. But the most fashionable?and expensive?morsel today is a strip of giant-salamander skin, the reddish tinge of which exactly matches the shade of China's new 100-yuan note. In the modern People's Republic, money trumps manhood...
...with the island's government health officials. The government could have relayed information about protocol to help prevent hospital transmissions, which have been commonplace wherever the virus has struck?yet hospital administrators in Taipei say they received no data. "Everything we know, we learned from the Internet," says Lee Yuan-teh, superintendent...
...That dish comes garnished with black- and white-cat sculptures?carved out of beets and turnips?in honor of Deng's famous economic axiom: It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.) The culinary allusions continue with the dessert offerings: yuan xiao, rice-paste dumplings stuffed with peanuts and black sesame, are listed as Chiang Kai-shek's balls. Elegance is combined with camp: an antique telephone on a lounge table is wired to play a recording of Mao's voice. The house wine, a French Bordeaux carrying the Red Capital...
Before this election in Taiwan’s capital, polls indicated Ma would defeat challenger Ying-yuan Lee, a Harvard School of Public Health graduate...
...selected Lee to run against the popular incumbent in May 2002. Lee has served as a legislator and most recently as the secretary-general of the Executive Yuan, which manages the country’s administrative departments...