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...India doesn't yet have the infrastructure needed to support all of its new malls. The daily exodus of shoppers from Delhi to Gurgaon's malls is already creating excruciating delays on the roads. But that's only the start of the trouble, says K.T. Ravindran, an urban-planning expert at Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture. Because the electricity supply is unreliable in Gurgaon, says Ravindran, malls will have to run their own diesel-powered generators, which will cause significant pollution. And because the water supply is also shaky, he adds, many of the malls will have...
...fill the post of bard. The native Filipino immigrated to the U.S. when he was 16, achieved success there as a playwright and won a MacArthur "genius" fellowship. His first novel, Fixer Chao, was about a Filipino male prostitute in New York City who poses as a feng-shui expert to fleece the rich...
...football. Television ratings of the nation's top team, the Yomiuri Giants, have dropped 38% in the past five years, and the league's best players have defected to the U.S. Owners say austerity measures such as club mergers are necessary given these dire circumstances. Author Robert Whiting, an expert on Japanese baseball, agrees that "fundamental restructuring is necessary" but adds that management's tendency to put the parent corporation before the team is responsible for the Japan League's woes: "[The owners] are victims of their own lack of commitment." Fans sympathise with the players?polls show only...
...Asian-European summit in Hanoi next month. "For the time being, we are just identifying it as flu type A H5 and we don't plan to identify what strain it is," says Tran Duc Long, deputy legal director at the Ministry of Health. The delay has international health experts concerned. "It is an obligation to report it if they have a positive case," says the World Health Organization's Hanoi representative, Hans Troedsson. "It affects international public health and lack of information could have severe implications." Nor is the problem confined to Vietnam: many of Asia's governments appear...
...natural resistance to the flu, so they can potentially spread the virus over wide areas without showing symptoms. "This may explain why the virus has reappeared in divergent areas of Thailand and Vietnam, and to me that is the real concern," says Dr. Robert Webster, a bird-flu expert at St. Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis. The fear is that this could all just be a preamble to a far greater catastrophe: every new outbreak and human infection give the unstable virus the chance to mutate further, increasing the chances it could become more lethal and contagious, spreading from...