Word: cambodia
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Black is a woman’s best friend. It is slimming. It disguises figure flaws, and it is easy to pretend that you look like Angela Jolie on a mission to Cambodia. However, this year’s black transcends the simple shift dresses and T-shirts of yore. Designers have been using it to complement complicated and intricate designs. Quirky details and structural originalities have been dominating the new black, rendering it a mix of Victorian ingenuity and modern couture. In order to avoid looking like you have been mourning Prince Albert for forty years, however, choose...
...increment in funding demonstrates the president’s true worry about the problem. Since mid-2003 outbreaks of bird flu have occurred in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Laos. And, of 112 laboratory-confirmed cases in humans, 57 people died from the disease. With no known capacity of person-to-person transmission, human cases of the virus have been relatively isolated, but the Indonesian Health Minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, warned of more possible victims in her country and forewarned the change to a humanly transmittable strain is “just a matter of time...
SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA...
DIED. Lon Nol, 72, President of Cambodia from 1972 to 1975; of heart disease; in Fullerton, Calif. A former military Chief of Staff, Defense Minister and Premier, Lon Nol ended the 1,000-year-old Khmer monarchy by overthrowing Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 while he was out of the country. Although Lon Nol's republic was propped up by American military aid, it proved unpopular, corrupt and too weak to resist the forces of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who after seizing power killed an estimated one million Cambodians (out of 7.3 million). Shortly before Lon Nol fled...
...handling minor stories; that, he claimed, was Rosenthal's retaliation for Severo's not selling his work to Times Books. Others charge that as Rosenthal has grown more conservative politically, he has become skittish about criticizing Establishment figures in print. When Sydney Schanberg, a 1976 Pulitzer prizewinner for his Cambodia coverage, began frequently attacking the city's power brokers in his local column, it was abruptly dropped...