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...over the years were South African Johan Meyer and German-- South African Gerhard Wisser, who allegedly helped set up a processing facility that could be shipped whole to Libya. Khan's crew tapped furnacemakers in Italy, lathemakers in Spain, and Swiss middlemen who helped design parts for construction in Southeast Asia. The network began sending Libya crateloads of equipment, routing the ships through Europe and the Persian Gulf city of Dubai before they reached their destination in Tripoli. It was an audacious enterprise, given that Western spies were on the hunt for illicit trading in weapons of mass destruction...
...drowned two days before in a fishpond near their home in northern Vietnam's Thai Binh province, and Viet was undone by the death. At the funeral the family served raw duck blood and porridge?rural comfort food. Although they had heard that the avian influenza that swept Southeast Asia last year had returned, they thought the disease was confined to the south. The day after the funeral, Viet fell sick with flulike symptoms. He was hospitalized on Dec. 31, and tested negative for the H5N1 virus that causes avian flu. Viet deteriorated rapidly and died...
Nearly a month after the tsunami wrecked the coasts of South and Southeast Asia, students are continuing relief efforts, including planning for a “matching” initiative of their...
...argument. In 1945, when almost every potentially rich economy apart from the U.S. lay amid the rubble of war, the U.S. accounted for about 50% of world economic output, and U.S. wages were much higher than those elsewhere. But other nations caught up--first Western Europe, then Japan, then Southeast Asia, then Eastern Europe, now India and China. The U.S. share of the world economy is now only about 22%, and wages elsewhere are closer to those of Americans. Why anyone should think this process is a source of net human unhappiness beats me, but then--may as well admit...
...against disease isn't over, but the medical response to the tsunami is shaping up to be a surprising success story for the field of emergency public health. "The situation is still evolving, still dynamic, but I think we are well prepared," says Dr. Jai Narain, the WHO's Southeast Asia regional adviser for communicable disease. "Even if an outbreak occurs, we would be able to respond to it very effectively...