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...immediate cause for the plunge in travel to Asia, of course, was the SARS scare; although the World Health Organization has lifted the last of its travel bans to East Asia, news that the virus has been contained hasn't, predictably, received a shadow of the coverage the virus attracted during its reign of terror. Yet the epidemic was only the latest in a long, doleful cortege of P.R. disasters for tourism in Southeast Asia and beyond...
...Instead, the supplicants only brought more suffering down on their own heads. When they reached Zhengzhou, several were detained by local police, says a Wenlou resident and AIDS victim who asks to be identified only by his surname, Cheng. Worse, authorities then tried to scare the village's 3,000 residents into silence. On the night of June 22, Cheng says, he and his children awoke to the sound of splitting wood. He says hundreds of police stormed Wenlou, breaking down doors, attacking villagers with cattle prods and dragging some out of their beds and into police cars. The ordeal...
...Beverly Hills cancer scare erupted in February, after Brockovich's firm alerted the local CBS-TV affiliate that she'd soon be filing suit. The resulting two-part TV series caused widespread concern, if not panic, among Beverly Hills high school students, parents and graduates. Six hundred people attended a meeting hosted by Brockovich at the posh Beverly Hills Hotel to recruit potential litigants, who were asked to fill out questionnaires to document their illnesses. Armed with these data, Brockovich charged that emissions of benzene, toluene n-hexane and other substances on the high school campus have caused 300 cases...
...Thailand: Terror Scare...
...Thailand: Terror Scare...