Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paxton was the granddaddy of the Greenwich Village music scene in the early '60s, a time when struggling folk artists sang heatedly about civil rights and Southeast Asia. When the febrile years drew to a close, Paxton took his music abroad; he spent the past three or four years playing in English towns. Now back in America, Paxton is a bit balder and even bolder than in the past...
...that they were well on the way to the total conquest of malaria. The dread disease, which afflicted as many as 300 million people at a time in the 1940s, was being swept away by the clouds of DDT spray that killed the malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes. Now, in Asia, Africa and Latin America, malaria is again on the rampage; the number of cases around the world has risen to an estimated 120 million...
...spray the walls, on the rationale that the oily DDT residue would knock out any disease-carrying mosquito that alighted there.* The campaign succeeded so well that malaria was reduced in many countries to a minor public-health problem. Similar success was achieved under World Health Organization auspices in Asia and parts-but by no means all-of Africa...
...centuries ginseng, a root often shaped vaguely like a human body, has been touted in Asia as an aphrodisiac, an aid to long life and a cure for everything from cancer to baldness. A small but growing number of Americans buy it in drug and health-food stores in the form of a gooey black liquid, tablets, tea and even ginseng soap. Almost all finished ginseng products sold here are imported from South Korea and other Asian countries that process the roots-but a good share of the roots themselves comes from...
...Marcos' gestures continue to have their supporters, who point out that the Philippines still has a far less repressive political atmosphere than many other regimes in Asia. "It's simply unfair to put the Philippines into the same category as Iran or South Korea as a human rights violator, not to mention most of the Communist countries," says one diplomat. True enough. But Marcos himself has promised that "any violation of human rights is one too many that may not be tolerated by the new society." That is a high standard for any government...