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...certainly more than deserving [of tenure],” said History of Art and Architecture Associate Professor Yukio Lippit, McCormick’s husband and a fellow member of the East Asia Art History Program. “As both a spouse and a colleague I think it is wonderful...
...data from last spring's outbreaks of H1N1 around the world. Those stats, say officials at the Centers for Disease Control, were then run through models used in the government's 2005 pandemic preparedness efforts that began in the wake of bird flu cases of H5N1 that arose in Asia. (See "Mapping Swine...
...Trees are present more among farmlands in the dense tropical areas of Southeast Asia and Central America, along with much of South America. The proportion is lower in sub-Saharan Africa - although Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement has helped plant more than 30 million trees for Africa's poor. The difference seems to come down mostly to support for tree-planting by governments or NGOs like Maathai's. In places where agroforestry is encouraged this way, trees are far likelier to bloom than in places where farmers are given no such guidance. (See TIME's special...
...students and delays in getting passports marked "third gender." Nepal's example is powerful enough that donors from Norway and Sweden want to help them replicate it elsewhere. That effort will begin on Aug. 18 with a meeting in Kathmandu of gay activists from all over South Asia. It's hard to say what the gay world in Asia will look like a decade from now, but in a valley in the shadow of the Himalayas, it is finding its next incarnation...
...Indonesia ... Or Alive? DNA tests indicate that the body of a militant slain in a shoot-out with police on Aug. 8 was not that of Southeast Asia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Top, who is believed to be the mastermind behind the bombings that killed seven at two upscale Jakarta hotels last month...