Word: asia
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Irene Ng '98-who was nominated for the Rhodes-wants to study British colonialism in Southeast Asia and to eventually serve as an ambassador or economic adviser to Malaysia, where she lived until...
Modern medicine has grown by means of a tradition that is almost 2,400 years old. Its practices are said to have begun on the Greek island of Cos, near the western coast of Asia Minor, where a school arose around the teachings of the legendary Hippocrates. Today the name of Hippocrates is mentioned most frequently in discussions of the oath attributed to him. But the Hippocratic physicians did far more than introduce the principles from which the codes of today's medical ethics have developed...
...this are typical of Cox's experience as he scours the world's flora in search of plants that will benefit Western medicine. Cox has spent years in Samoa interviewing or apprenticing himself to traditional healers. He has also traveled throughout the South Pacific, as well as in Southeast Asia, South America, East Africa and as far north as Sweden's Lapland. In Samoa alone, healers have led him and his colleagues to 74 medicinal plants that might prove useful...
...Harvard Crimson, Senior Editor/Co-Chair of Diversity Committee; Harvard Program in International Education, Business Manager; Harvard Model United Nations, Committee Director; South Asia Journal, Editor-In-Chief...
...much of Asia will be catching its breath. How bad is that? At the outside, economists warn that the crimp on good times might lead to a worldwide capital crunch and a massive stock-market slide. But that is seen as a remote prospect...