Word: asia
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...wound up driving it to the end-of-day handoff ceremony at Charléty Stadium on the edge of the city when the tormented relay was canceled at mid-course. As the torch moves on to San Francisco and Buenos Aires before heading back to Africa and Asia, the organizers of this summer's Beijing Games are facing a grim prospect: that the protests denouncing China's human rights record in Tibet and elsewhere could mount as the torch continues its 85,000-mile, 20-nation voyage...
...deal with heat waves - ensuring that the most vulnerable elderly aren't left on their own - and improving defenses against vector-borne diseases, with anti-malaria nets and medicines like artemisinin. Such preparations will be especially needed in those parts of the developing world - sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia - that will bear the brunt of climate change. But Patz would also like to see public health tackle carbon emissions directly, cutting off global warming at the source. For him, carbon dioxide should be treated as a pollutant that damages human health, albeit indirectly, and it's in our medical interests...
...more than 50,000 volunteers in 73 countries, dedicated to charity, evangelizing and peacemaking. Funded by contributions and subscriptions, the group has been called upon to function as arbiter and conciliator in a score of major peace negotiations in the Middle East, the Balkans, Latin America, Africa and Asia. "We're not dreamers," Riccardi says. "We need to convince the people that peace is the best situation for them and that war is madness...
...sorry if I accosted you before my trip to Japan. Over spring break I traveled to Tokyo with the Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP), a student group that organizes social, cultural, and academic exchange programs between Harvard and six universities throughout Asia, and I was more than determined to turn HCAP into a culinary pilgrimage. I asked everyone who had lived in or visited Japan to list the best restaurants in the city—a layover in Osaka or a grandmother at the base of Mount Fuji counted you as an expert enough. I emailed Professor Ted Bestor...
...deep interest in global inter-connections, he said. Ma’s work with the Silk Road Project has helped him explore the global nature of music and culture in general. This project, which seeks to unite musicians from across the medieval Silk Road that ran from Asia through the Middle East to Europe, has been important to Ma’s work over the last five years. “We may have common languages and economic systems,” he said, “but do we have any insight into how someone else thinks...