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...DIED. Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS patient and activist who agitated for experimental medical treatments; of cardiac arrest; in Joshua Tree, California. In 1995, after a two-year fight for approval, Getty received bone-marrow cells from a baboon-the first animal-to-human bone-marrow transplant-to boost his immune system. Though his body rejected the cells and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later banned such transplants, he used his visibility to fight on, successfully getting more doctors to perform organ transplants on AIDS patients, whose prognoses were often deemed too bleak to justify such surgery...
...debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans - in just one collection point of the city, the authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Eighty kilometers south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. To the south, in Galle, an old Dutch town on the Sri Lankan coast, Z.A.M. Fahim, 45, a restaurant owner...
...first glance, the city of Dandong seems a peaceful, bustling symbol of Chinese prosperity. Brightly dressed townspeople stroll along the tree-lined promenade near the Yalu River, teenagers mixing with office workers and young families, many of them fresh from nearby malls, shopping bags at their sides. As the light fades, neon signs illuminate the city's numerous hotels and karaoke bars. Smaller lights also begin to blink on in the rows of brand-new apartment buildings that line the riverbank for miles. Behind one of the buildings, a fountain of noise and color erupts as firecrackers and exploding rockets...
...first glance, the city of Dandong seems a peaceful, bustling symbol of Chinese prosperity. Brightly dressed townspeople stroll along the tree-lined promenade near the Yalu River, teenagers mixing with office workers and young families, many of them fresh from nearby malls, shopping bags at their sides. As the light fades, neon signs illuminate the city's numerous hotels and karaoke bars. Smaller lights also begin to blink on in the rows of brand-new apartment buildings that line the riverbank for miles. Behind one of the buildings, a fountain of noise and color erupts as firecrackers and exploding rockets...
...October in the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong, a soft breeze blowing tendrils of mist across the slate grey surface of the Yalu River. Sprawling for miles along the banks of the river, Dandong seems a perfect, bustling symbol of the "new" China. Brightly dresssed townspeople stroll along the tree-lined promenade, courting teenagers mixing with office workers and doting parents chasing a single, precious child, many of them toting shopping bags from nearby malls. But this is anything but a normal town, because just across the river stands the decrepit North Korean city of Shinnuiju. As the main crossing...