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...December, 800,000 birds have been culled in the ongoing effort to eradicate the outbreak; 40 million of Vietnam's 258 million total poultry population have been culled since the disease first emerged in late 2003. "They're definitely responding much better than this time last year," says Dr. Hitoshi Oshitani, an avian-flu expert based at the WHO's Western Pacific regional office...
...Korean rival Samsung Electronics, the two largest makers of LCD panels, may be best placed to weather any downturn because of their large market shares, strong technology and deep pockets. Analysts are most worried about smaller Taiwanese companies. Under current market conditions, "manufacturers have very little to gain," says Hitoshi Kuriyama, a consumer-electronics analyst at Merrill Lynch in Japan. "The winner is the consumer...
...Center for Disease Control and add isolation rooms to hospitals. Properly prepared health facilities are key in keeping a minor outbreak from becoming a big one?SARS spread most rapidly among medical workers. "Without the trauma in hospitals there would have been no major outbreak last time," says Dr. Hitoshi Oshitani, the WHO regional adviser for communicable disease...
...invitation to Japan's Emperor Akihito to visit, just a few months after the monarch said the nations shared not only the World Cup but common blood?admitting the long-taboo fact that the Japanese imperial family has Korean ancestry. "The World Cup has brought us together," says Hitoshi Takaoka, a Japanese fan who donned a "Korea Team Fighting" shirt after his own team was eliminated...
...comical: like Vincent Trasov's campaign for mayor as Mr. Peanut, or Goran Trbuljak's photograph of a door with the inscription, "From time to time I stuck my finger through a hole in the door of the Modern Art Gallery without the management's knowledge." Others, like Nomura Hitoshi's "'Moon' Score" (a piece of music written to the phases of the moon) or Wei Guangqing's "Suicide Series" (a series of photographs demonstrating different ways of killing oneself) are at once emotionally haunting, spiritually probing and subtly ironic. It is this whimsical refusal to accept easy categorization which...