October 23 - 29, 1997 Volume 19 No.10

THEY'RE BACK The 'Asian Connection' reborn in hearings EMIL AMOK Diversity on the diamond VERY MODERN MEDICINE The first acupuncture health plan A REAL WOMAN Hiep Thi Le in Yon Fan's 'Bugis Street'

NOBEL PURSUITS Stanford Professor Steven Chu joins a select group of Asian American Nobel Prize winners