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...city's intravenous drug users skyrocketed from less than 2 percent to more than 90 percent. India now has more than 5 million cases of HIV, more than any other single nation in the world. Unlike the U.S., where the rates of HIV infection have stabilized, South and Southeast Asia are still in a phase in which the growth in number of infected people is alarmingly steep...
Although they have been affected most severely in recent years, South and Southeast Asia are not alone. Sub-Saharan Africa has battled with HIV for years and still has the largest number of HIV cases as a region. Russia is now experiencing rapid growth in HIV infection, and Eastern Europe, Latin America and China are rapidly joining the ranks of countries severely affected by AIDS...
...time for "counterrevolutionary crimes," according to the U.S. State Department--many for nonviolent protests. A teacher who tossed eggs at a portrait of Mao, for instance, is serving a life term. Prison conditions are abysmal: a former inmate has said that new arrivals at a facility in Hunan, in southeast China, are forced to suck feces from a straw...
...trying to alert us to budding economic troubles before it was summarily dispatched to the pound. "It's always wise to take the message of the market seriously," says Hugh Johnson, chief investment strategist at the brokerage firm First Albany. "The message is that the currency crisis in Southeast Asia will affect not only the economies of Southeast Asia but also that...
Strangely, despite the intense selling pressure from overseas, the market opened simply garden-variety ugly at 9:30 a.m. Monday. We dumped and dumped and dumped; we were sure that a global sell-off would ensue from the Southeast Asian fallout, and we wanted to beat the panickers to the exit. The sell-off remained orderly until Barton Biggs, one of the reigning rainmakers on Wall Street, conducted a conference call with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter clients. Set up by brokers who actually thought Biggs might be bullish, the big shots who dialed in got a dose of fear that...