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...United States and other wealthy nations should contribute to a global fund to fight infectious diseases, international public health expert Paul E. Farmer told a crowd of about 60 students and others who packed into the Eliot House Senior Common Room Monday night...
...world-reknowned specialist on infectious diseases and professor of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School, Farmer co-founded Partners in Health (PIH) in 1987, an organization that has established health clinics in impoverished areas throughout the Americas and Eastern Europe...
...informal talk, Farmer complained that developing nations can often not afford the medical supplies they need because of high export costs...
...thrill tempered by the riot of ugliness erupting all around, and the creeping fear that another decade or so is all that separates this once lovely spot from becoming Pattaya-on-the-Mekong. "This was still mostly farmland 10 years ago," says Junfong Suphan, 48, a farmer who now sells counterfeit Nike clothing shipped down from China. Her stall in the town of Chiang Rai is one of dozens clustered near a towering sign that welcomes visitors to the Golden Triangle. Across the main road, the strip of guesthouses, bars, restaurants, souvenir shops and accompanying lurid signage expands daily...
Fortuyn's alleged assassin appears to be a political animal of a very different sort. Volkert van der Graaf, 32, who was arrested immediately after the shooting and arraigned on Wednesday, is an animal-rights activist and long-term member of an environmental group that legally challenges farmers who seek to expand their operations. A principled vegan who once told an interviewer he couldn't abide the cruelty of baiting a fishhook, Van der Graaf lived in the small town of Harderwijk with his wife and three-month-old baby. "He was not given to jokes or eccentricities," says Caroline...