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...virus. That would indicate, at the very least, that China suspected this type of influenza might be afflicting its poultry but did not yet have the means to test. Both Japan and Taiwan have intercepted shipments of tainted duck meat from the mainland in the past year. Kim Sun Jwong, an avian-diseases expert at Seoul National University, believes the Middle Kingdom is the most likely provenance of Korea's H5N1 outbreak. And live chickens are also frequently traded along China's border with Vietnam. If China is seeding these outbreaks, then greater cooperation from mainland officials is essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On High Alert | 1/24/2004 | See Source »

...state of mind. Even by the standards of elite sports people, Hewitt has revealed himself as extraordinarily intense and self-confident. But is his drive to win - every time he steps on court - as powerful as ever? In Hewitt's relationship with his fianc?e, Belgian world No. 2 Kim Clijsters, and his days spent caddying for Greg Norman in December, some observers see signs that Hewitt's obsession with tennis may be starting to splinter. His sterling performances in the Davis Cup last year proved he could still beat anyone in big, stand-alone matches before home crowds. But crawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come In Stunner | 1/24/2004 | See Source »

...DIED. MICHAEL STRAIGHT, 87, former publisher of the New Republic and spy for the Soviet Union, whose 1964 confession unmasked Anthony Blunt, part of a ring that included Soviet mole Kim Philby; in Chicago. Recruited while studying at Cambridge University in 1937, Straight worked as a U.S. government economist and claimed the only documents he gave the Soviets were his own economic analyses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...prepare to be fleeced, one may wonder: What keeps this con going? It's not that American and Asian leaderships are invincibly ignorant. They've just bought into a variant of La Grande Illusion (as such thinking was called in France in the late 1930s). The notion that the Kim regime has absolutely no intention of ever giving up its nuclear capability?at any price, for any reason?is too terrible to face. Better to play pretend, even if this means being bilked in return for fake "breakthroughs" and bogus "accords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Shakedown | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

...that the plan, which still faces major hurdles such as an intended campaign to oppose it by the Seoul metropolitan government, would make South Korea's government quite a bit safer. Seoul, 50 km from the Demilitarized Zone separating South and North Korea?is well within range of Kim Jong Il's artillery and only minutes away for jet fighters based at the North's front-line air bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capital Maneuver | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

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