1. Is this the inventor of bubble tea?
CNN 20 May, 2011
Lin Hsiu Hui says she invented bubble tea when she poured fen yuan into an iced tea drink in 1988.
In 1988, a dull meeting prompted Lin Hsiu Hui to pour her tapioca dessert into her tea. Asian snacking has never been the same since
There’s much speculation on the Internet and elsewhere about the origin of bubble tea. But there is one tea shop, and one woman, who are generally accepted as being the true, bona fide creators of this most popular drink.
As a lifelong fan of bubble tea, I was thrilled to meet this woman when I visited her place of work, and the source of all bubbles teas it would seem, at Chun Shui Tang tea house in Taichung, Taiwan.
The founder, Liu Han-Chieh, first came up with the idea of serving Chinese tea cold in the early 1980s after visiting Japan where he saw coffee served cold.
This propelled his fledgling chain into Taiwanese teahouse folklore.
Then, in 1988, his product development manager, Ms. Lin Hsiu Hui, was sitting in a staff meeting and had brought with her a typical Taiwanese dessert called fen yuan, a sweetened tapioca pudding. Just for fun she poured the tapioca balls into her Assam iced tea and drank it.
“Everyone at the meeting loved the drink and it quickly outsold all of our other iced teas within a couple of months -- even after 20 years on the menu, bubble tea makes up 80-90 percent of our sales and Taiwanese are proud of this home-grown drink,” says Lin.
2. Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Ex-IMF boss wins New York bail
BBC 19 May 2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been granted bail by a judge in a New York court, after being formally charged with trying to rape a hotel maid.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn had earlier resigned as the International Monetary Fund's boss.
His lawyers said he was honorable and would not try to abscond. Prosecutors said he had "incentive to flee".
Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus imposed $1m cash bail and said there must be 24-hour home detention, with an armed guard and electronic monitoring.
The judge said one armed guard must be deployed at all times, at Mr. Strauss-Kahn's expense, and the defendant must surrender all travel documents. In addition to the $1m (£618,000) cash bail, a $5m insurance bond would also apply.
Mr Strauss-Kahn will spend a fourth night at the notorious Rikers Island prison on Thursday before the bail papers are signed.
He will appear in court again on 6 June, when he will formally enter a plea. He has denied all the accusations against him.
3. Tornadoes the most terrifying of natural disasters
CNN April 30, 2011
(CNN) -- I had to live all over the country before I realized that Americans everywhere live with some kind of fear hanging over their daily lives.
Those who live in river towns grow up with stories of floods. West Coasters joke about earthquakes to anesthetize themselves from the omnipresent reality of the real thing. Those who live in California and the Southwest can expect drought and horrific wildfires once or twice a decade, and anyone who lives a lifetime in the Gulf area must feel like they've lived through the plagues of the Old Testament. In the South and Midwest, of course, it's tornadoes.
Having experienced a flood in Pennsylvania and the 1989 Bay Area earthquake, I would argue that tornadoes are the most unsettling of all natural disasters and the most terrifying. When you have a torrential rain, you can anticipate a flood. In many cases, at least, the direction of wildfires can be predicted. Traumatic as earthquakes are, you don't have the agony of sitting and waiting for them.
But with tornadoes, there's a horrifying time span--ranging from several hours to mere minutes--when you know it may be coming, followed by the soul- wrenching knowledge that since you don't know which way it's going to turn, you can't flee from it.
Tornadoes teach us humility. For all of our scientific technology, there really isn't a thing we can do to protect those who are caught in their path. They are conscienceless killers, coldly democratic in where and how they strike.
The age of real time media has added a new and even more terrifying aspect: You can see the disaster forming then watch as it destroys.
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