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...Since when, they add, was isolation good for human rights? Think North Korea. And when did any leader, even such a beacon of resistance as Aung San Suu Kyi, speak for an entire party or people? The nld is split on the issue. The Burmese, who extend Southeast Asia's warmest welcome to tourists, are clearly happy to see them, not soldiers, on the streets. Some tourism supporters accuse boycott advocates of cynically trying to stir up unrest by depressing incomes...
...experts say is still to come. While geologists predict a mega-quake still lies in Seattle's future, they are also looking at a different, equally dangerous big one that is literally looming on the city's horizon: MOUNT RAINIER, the snowcapped volcano that lies 50 miles to the southeast. Though slumbering, Rainier is still active, and last week's quake might have loosened deep rocks that hold molten magma and hot gases in check. This could send up the volatile mix and cause an eruption. Several towns are built on top of Rainier's ancient flows...
...begun to warm to its former Cold War allies. One alliance that played a key role during the Cold War was revived last week as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong signed an agreement on strategic cooperation, giving Moscow its strongest ally yet in Southeast Asia...
...DIED. TIN OO, 67, Burmese army chief of staff who was the fourth most powerful member of the country's ruling junta, in a helicopter crash; near Pha-an, southeast Burma. A serving lieutenant general, Tin Oo was second secretary in the State Peace and Development Council, the 21-member group of army officers that took power in Burma in 1988 after crushing a pro-democracy uprising...
...Harvard's history department is very strong on the Middle East, China, Japan and Southeast Asia," Bose said. "I will provide a connection between those areas...I'm interested in breaking out of the constraints of area studies and looking at comparisons and connections...