Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...West Nile cousin, or something very like it. That would account for the many patients with encephalitis symptoms who had nonetheless tested negative for the St. Louis virus. But it presented a broader mystery. Usually found in Africa, but also responsible for epidemics in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, the West Nile virus had never before been identified in the Americas. How did it make its way here...
With Harvard outposts popping up around the globe--the Harvard Business School, for example, runs one in Asia--the University hopes to find whole new markets of students and topics of research that were previously unavailable...
Centers examining Latin America, Asia, Korea, China and Russia have been formed, along with more broadly defined programs such as the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for International Development...
...China, which accounts for just under a third of the world's smokers, presents an almost untapped market to U.S. cigarette manufacturers stung by a drop-off in smoking in America and Europe. "Some in Asia charge that because U.S. companies are being frozen out of American markets, they're turning to the Third World to keep the business going," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. But China's smoking problem may have a lot less to do with the allure of Western cigarette advertising than with prevailing social conditions. "If you're an ordinary worker in a Chinese industrial city...
...election trail and 12-day Asia trip reduce voice to whisper. Vocal cords examined with fiber-optic probe; given drug to keep stomach acid out of throat...