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...girlie man.” This quest can dip into the danger zone, however, as perceptions of one’s body and ideals of attractiveness become warped. This is especially true in Western countries, as was evidenced by a research team led by the Harvard undergraduate Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang ’05 in a study published last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Comparing Taiwanese to American and European men, the research team found the Western group to be more preoccupied with a heavy build and more likely to overestimate the “ideal?...
...good news is that Vietnamese authorities, who badly mismanaged past outbreaks, are doing far more to ensure that the Year of the Rooster doesn't become the Year of Bird Flu. The southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City has closed its unhygienic wet markets, which sold live chickens and ducks, forcing all incoming poultry to be killed at slaughterhouses. Market monitors, backed by riot police, are manning checkpoints on major highways to ensure that all incoming poultry have "passports" proving that they've been inspected by government veterinarians for avian flu. Since December, 800,000 birds have been culled...
...producers are small-scale farmers who raise a few dozen birds to eat or sell?and few keep their flocks in cages or enclosures. "Rural Vietnam is one huge free-range farm," says Anton Rychener, head of the Hanoi office of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Although Ho Chi Minh City has shut down its once ubiquitous wet markets, it still isn't hard to find a live chicken for sale there. Two blocks from Cho Lon market, where rows of empty cages once housed squawking chickens, a vegetable vendor offers to locate live poultry for a finder...
...already endemic in much of Asia, and a recent WHO report showed that the H5N1 virus has become progressively hardier and more lethal, with a human mortality rate of 75%. Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, says he's shocked by the virulence of avian flu in the patients he has helped treat: "I've never experienced anything like it in terms of its destructive power. It is staggering in terms of how much lung tissue is destroyed." Nguyen Thanh Hung...
...though, Hanoi?always more dour than gaudy Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in the south?just might be starting to loosen up. "Who cares about the government?" shouts a refrigerator salesman swilling iced gin at the bar and listening to the Filipino country-and-western band. "What matters is what the people like." And the people can't get enough of cowboys. Happy hour at the Seventeen Saloon, from 5 to 8 p.m., is a convivial crush of Vietnamese cutting loose. One tip: if you're planning to pay a visit, make sure to get there early, as the action...