Word: medanic
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...SULTAN: MEDAN...
...least in the spirit of people who will without fail return a smile with a bigger smile, but most of these places don't show up on postcards. The next leg on Sumatra is a prime example: between the dusty, trashy port town of Dumai and the city of Medan some 10 bumpy hours by car to the north, the eye catches on the bare-bones shacks with their thatched roofs and cleanly swept earthen yards, smarts through the smoke of fires that eclipse the midday sun and loses focus after miles of palm oil and rubber plantations. The only...
...restaurant, its plastic tables and chairs idle; by an illuminated badminton court, its lines drawn in the dirt, its players immaculate in their whites; by an overturned lumber truck, its wheels still spinning. And finally, having finished a bag of snakefruit bought on the Dumai docks, I reach Medan, a typically crowded and polluted Indonesian city in a region that was the Deli Sultanate when the lofty sails of Zheng He's fleets darkened these skies...
...buck to made, someone in Shenzhen will make it. Wiwijaya, an Indonesian-born ethnic Chinese, tells the harrowing story of his brother, who was suffering from renal failure. He ordered a replacement kidney for $25,000 and, as a 26-year-old, made the journey to southern China from Medan in 1996. The transplant was successful, but when he returned for an internal checkup last August something went terribly wrong. His stomach swelled up, his new kidney collapsed and he fell into a coma. A second transplant was ordered. "But the doctor had another plan," says Wiwijaya. "He wanted...
...Medan court's timing probably was not coincidental, and it highlights the difficult balance Clinton is determined to maintain on his trip to Asia, which centers on a summit meeting in Bogor, Indonesia, of the 18-nation Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation group. Clinton's commerce-oriented policy pits his drive for good relations and ever increasing trade with the nations of Asia against his avowed concerns for human rights. As a candidate, he jabbed at George Bush's China policy, saying the U.S. has "a higher purpose than to coddle dictators and stand aside from the global movement toward democracy...