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Hanoi's crisis is not just a race between urban planners and entrepreneurial developers. It is also about redefining Vietnam, in the words of Deputy Foreign Minister Le Mai, ``as a country, not a war.'' Established in 1010 during the Ly dynasty, Hanoi remained an unremarkable place until the turn of the last century, when France sent its best architects to what had become its richest colony. They designed grand theaters and government buildings, using the same proportional guidelines that gave Paris such remarkable balance in size and form, though French liberals of the time groused over ``la folie...
...farmer for 18 years, Somphong got into the business of raising tigers after buying four of them from the Chiang Mai Zoo in 1990. Since then he has bred the females twice a year. He admits that his long-term goal is to persuade Thai authorities to allow him to breed tigers and sell their parts, after they die naturally, to medicine makers. A traditional-medicine specialist from Xian, China, is already seeing patients at the farm, which doubles as a clinic. So far, the Thai authorities are dead set against raising tigers for medical use. ``They hope we will...
...Mai T. Phung, 17. She doesn't thinkabout minority issues a lot--she concentrates onthe other platform issues. "I think the Republicanparty reflects on more of the ideas that my familyhas and I love," Phung says...
...tools that were not available at the beginning of the epidemics in Africa and the Americas, molecular biologist Chin-Yih Ou and his colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found two distinct epidemics caused by somewhat different strains of HIV in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Both epidemics started no more than four years ago, but one occurred mostly in intravenous drug abusers and the other started in female prostitutes. There was little overlap between the two groups...
...protopsychedelic Purple Haze, their trademark encore. The group's latest Elektra Nonesuch CD, PIECES OF AFRICA, finds the Kronos wandering even farther afield. A potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism and European forms by eight black, brown and white African composers, the music ranges from the irrepressible Mai Nozipo (Mother Nozipo) of Zimbabwean Dumisani Maraire to the brooding White Man Sleeps of South African-born Kevin Volans, and resounds with the sound of the tar (a drum), the kora (a 21-stringed instrument) and the human voice. Highlight: Ghanaian drummer Obo Addy's Wawshishijay (Our Beginning). No bloodless Euro...