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...Allen Counter brought a team of four Harvard Medical School professors and two Harvard-affiliated psychologists to Baton Rouge, along with the four students: Nneka C. Eze ’07, Jennifer N. Green ’07, Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06, and Michael L. Nguyen...
...Nguyen spoke of translating for Vietnamese immigrants, a population of shrimpers and small business owners that had been all but ignored by the mainstream media in the aftermath of the storm...
According to Thanh Nguyen, one of the VACM organizers who left Vietnam in 1988 to escape the communist government, the Boston protest itself drew demonstrators from all over the country...
...they had convinced Vietnam's government to call off human testing on its vaccine and develop a new one based on an approved virus seed provided by the WHO. But two top Vietnamese scientists tell TIME they will forge ahead with their own strain. "Nothing has changed," says Dr. Nguyen Thu Van, the head of the vaccine team. "We will test our vaccine on humans as planned before." There's little anyone can do: the WHO has no enforcement powers. "The danger is very unlikely," admits Michael Perdue, a WHO virus expert who has consulted with Vietnam. "But you just...
...Vietnam's Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship. The wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5? each. Hon's first stop...