His cousins, Lin You Xing and Lin Guo Guang, also died in the waters.

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Lin You Xing, 38, who was married with a son.

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The Garden is dysfunctional. if you let Lin walk, you can sign away half of your fanbase to the Brooklyn Nets or the Houston Rockets.

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But then you watch what has happened in New York the past week and a half with Jeremy Lin and you see how this city still can deliver a national rumpus like none other.

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Fans had signs with Lin's face on it, and posterboards with Lin puns you didn't think possible.

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Who needs Jeremy Lin and Linsanity when you can have Justin Bieber in your basketball game.

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If Lin slips more, you can expect a drumbeat for him to give way to the recovering veteran Baron Davis, who has performed well in spurts in guiding New York's second unit.

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"You can get acute strokes in children just as you do in adults, " says Dr Lin.

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"When you're healthy, you can do better on tests and you can fight more diseases, " student Nick Lin told CNN affiliate NY1.

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"Basically this allows you to have greater bandwidth and lower cost, " says American Technology Research analyst Albert Lin.

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"You'd have to sell off the best parts of the company to make money, " says Lin.

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