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And so it can be -- especially for wanderers smitten by places they ought to think twice about: where quaint cultures run up against armored jeeps charging through city streets, where emergency travel kits had best include not just a bottle of Lomotil but also a bulletproof vest. The surprise is...
While side effects could arise during further testing, Marisco said, the antibodies had no toxic effect on healthy cells. "These experiments were done in human cells and the cultures," he said. "The next step will be to test this on human blood cells."
The tit-for-tat criticism of Japanese and American cultures defies value judgments. The most unrepentant in the fast L.A. world of high stakes capitalism is Eddie Sakamura, fantastically played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Eddie combines the sleaziest of instincts from both sides of the Pacific with a playful indifference...
He isn't optimistic about the future, on either side. He sees Americans clinging to their Arab stereotypes -- the fat grasping sheik, the crazy fundamentalist bomber. Meanwhile, "most Arabs today, including cultivated ones, have no hope of any kind of cultural exchange between them and the West. The mood is...
Unfriendly commentators seized on their plight to complain that the rules under which Chinese immigrants, in particular, can claim political asylum are overly generous. Under a Bush-ordered loophole in the law, Chinese who say they are victimized by Beijing's strict one-child population rules can enter the country...