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...Allan Dizon grew up to the shrill squeals of dying pigs. His family home-a humble, jerrybuilt affair of concrete, wood and tin sheeting-stands in the township of Lorega, Cebu, close to a municipal slaughterhouse, but a distant remove from the white beaches and luxury resorts that many people associate with the Philippines' second city. Lorega is a tough area of backyard swineries and poverty, where the chief alleviators of misery are cockfighting, illegal gambling machines and drugs. For a brief time at least, Dizon was one of its more fortunate sons, working as a photojournalist at a local...
...political heat was getting to be a lot to handle, and Harvard would be a breath of fresh air. In Washington, Summers told Allan Murray, then a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, that half the people who knew his name were waiting for him to fail at all times. Summers was looking forward to working in a place where everyone would be cheering for his success...
...meantime, wines from Australia, California and Chile have grabbed more of the export market, offering lower prices along with consumer-friendly tastes and labels. French winemakers and grape growers got some help last month when the country's agriculture department approved $91 million in financial aid. But as Allan Sichel, president of a federation of Bordeaux negociants, admits, "It's not going to make a big difference." Quick fixes won't solve the industry's problems. The fastest-growing consumers of good Bordeaux and Burgundy may be cars made by Renault. --By Mitch Frank
...behavioral techniques that include relaxation training, biofeedback and psychotherapy. "If you ask most physicians how they would treat a patient, they would say, 'I use this drug' or 'I use that drug.' But there are many ways of treating chronic conditions that don't involve drugs," says Dr. Allan Gordon, director of the Wasser Center. "You have to look at the whole individual. A multidisciplinary approach is the only answer." A patient who learns to reduce pain with breathing exercises or biofeedback, Gordon notes, can often manage his misery with lower or only intermittent doses of drugs, reducing the risks...
...Hong Kong, travel almost always requires hopping onto a plane. Enter Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, a start-up budget carrier founded by Raymond C. Lee, 49, a property developer who is investing in the venture along with VTech Holdings chairman Allan Wong. Lee has a distinctive plan to compete with other upstarts like Tiger Airways in Singapore and AirAsia in Malaysia: fly to European cities--perhaps Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Vienna--where no other Asian airline goes direct. "Instead of trying to steal someone else's lunch, we're creating a market where a market does not even exist," says...