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...Saigon bureau, the popular, plugged-in An was able to achieve feats for both sides, including alerting the Viet Cong to the impending buildup of U.S. troops in the mid-'60s and secretly arranging for the release of American journalist Robert Sam Anson, who had been captured in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 2, 2006 | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...When she was in college at Colgate, Edwards studied with Frederick Busch, who became a mentor. After earning her MFA in fiction and an MA in theoretical linguistics, both from the University of Iowa, she and her husband spent five years teaching English in Southeast Asia - Malaysia, Japan, and Cambodia. "It was a time of great learning and great growth and great excitement," she says. "The chatter of everyday life fell away, and it allowed me to listen more fully to the stories I wanted to tell. It also allowed me to take risks that I wouldn't have probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Separated at Birth | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...intense, 44-year-old Canadian, is a U.N. veteran who has worked in Rwanda, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Kosovo. "I never wanted to be anything else but a prosecutor," he says. "Someone has to stand up for those who can't?or weren't able to." In Cambodia, that challenge is unique. Petit and his Cambodian co-prosecutor Chea Leang must build their case concerning crimes committed more than a quarter of a century ago. Of all the war crimes he has dealt with, "this is the longest elapsed time between the acts and accountability," says Petit. "It presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing Cambodia's Ghosts | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...intense, 44-year-old Canadian, is a U.N. veteran who has worked in Rwanda, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Kosovo. "I never wanted to be anything else but a prosecutor," he says. "Someone has to stand up for those who can't?or weren't able to." In Cambodia, that challenge is unique. Petit and his Cambodian co-prosecutor Chea Leang must build their case concerning crimes committed more than a quarter of a century ago. Of all the war crimes he has dealt with, "this is the longest elapsed time between the acts and accountability," says Petit. "It presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing Cambodia's Ghosts | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...trend is the same in Cambodia, China, parts of Africa and many island nations in the Pacific. What alarms public-health experts most is the speed with which diabetes has reached epidemic levels in these regions-and the fact that it is affecting children as well as adults. In 2000, 151 million people around the world had diabetes; by 2025, that number could double. Over the past two decades, the prevalence of the disease in China has jumped from 0.5% to 5%, while in cities in India, it has gone from 8% of adults in 1989 to an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diabetes On The Move | 6/6/2006 | See Source »

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