Word: lin
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...projections are chilling. O.C. Lin, director of the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation, says if China acts swiftly to contain the epidemic it can slow the disease's spread to 1.5 million HIV-infected people by 2010. "That's the best scenario," says Lin. And even that puts an impossible burden on China's underfunded health services. "In the worst case," Lin continues, "China could have 15 million HIV cases...
Someone dumped a suitcase outside the Pu Shen Temple. For two days no one paid it much notice until Lin, the temple caretaker, saw something odd: a ghostly, stiffened, protruding hand...
...case into a sex crime: physical evidence suggested the victim had had passive anal sex shortly before his death. A fingerprint check came up with his identity, as it would for most males in Taiwan, who are printed before the island-state's two-year manadatory military service: Lin Chih-hao, a 20-year-old accounting student at Taipei University who lived with his parents. Classmates described Lin as a perfectionist...
That discovery last month made the Suitcase Murder one of Taiwan's juiciest crime stories, and it's only gotten raunchier since. The case landed on the desk of Taipei detective Shih Yi-ting, of the force's two-year-old Cybercrime Squad. Shih began by looking at Lin's computer and studying the records of his Internet provider. She discovered that on the night of his death, Feb. 3, Lin had been on line for 57 minutes starting around 6:00 p.m. The provider also revealed that Lin had visited a gay website and had entered a chat room...
...Without any sort of outside help or intervention, quitting the drug becomes arduously difficult. Especially since prolonged use can lead to severe psychosis. "Basically," says Dr. Lin, "they go crazy." In the meantime, for societies grappling with this crisis, many debilitating side effects result from hosting large addict populations, including spiking crime rates, larger numbers of absentee fathers, higher HIV infection rates and increasing domestic abuse. Undoing the damage could take the rest of the decade, and if the American experience of fighting a prolonged battle against drugs is any example, the war may never be totally won. More likely...