China Chat: Chinese treasures
Adoptions of `special-needs' children run into heart-wrenching delays
Lisa Roy looks at 2 1/2 -year-old Emily and sees many things. She sees the hope and joy every mother invests in her child. And she remembers the arduous, exotic and ultimately exhilarating journey through China's adoption labyrinth that brought Emily to her.But when Lisa's startlingly blue eyes meet her daughter's almond-shaped, chestnut-brown ones, the 40-year-old, divorced schoolteacher realizes that something is missing.Emily needs a sister.And...
Letters to the Editor: China chat,
The best budget lodgings in Hong Kong, adios to the Three Gorges, comparing the tour companies, herbal medicines, bike culture and much more
Jan. 8 - To the Editor: Some friends and I took one of the China Focus 15 day tours of the Three Gorges in July, 2001. As you brought out in a recent Budget Travel Newsletter, China is indeed modernizing the country at an incredible rate. Every airport we flew into was no more than about five years old and often a newer one was being built. Entire towns have been rebuilt because of the rising waters of the Yangtze with the building of the huge dam on the river. The magnitude of the...
China Chat: SNEED
Omigosh! . . .Giftville: It's an extraordinary gift! Sneed has learned Ameritech's Dick Notebaert has a tremendous gift for his wife to mark their 30th wedding anniversary. So what is it?How about $4 million bucks.Translation: Notebaert is making a $4 million personal contribution to the Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences in honor of his wife, Peggy.Hence, the academy has decided to name the new museum the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum....
China Chat: SNEED
Hmmm . . .Steal 'em & lure 'em? Sneed hears Joe Ahern, WLS-Channel 7's former GM who now heads ABC affiliate KGO-TV in San Francisco, is trying to lure away a few Chicago TV personalities for his California operation. And the rumble is one of them works for WGN-Channel 9. Isn't that one reason the boyo was in town last week? Don't turn that dial.A Jordan update . . .A Sneed snoop says Michael Jordan was...
China Chat: ONLINE CHATS & PERFORMANCES
Today, Sept. 20 Henry Kingman from ZDNet Help Channel, will illuminate chatter about the origins of Linux and find out why it has captured hearts and headlines across the country. 7 p.m., chat.yahoo.com . Winston Lord, former U.S. Ambassador to China and former assistant secretary of state joins the ``Visions of China'' chat series. 12 p.m., cnn.com/chat .Tuesday, Sept. 21 Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese dissident imprisoned by the Chinese government for two...
