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...China's tendency to overprescribe antibiotics can be traced back to its traditional medical beliefs. "According to Chinese medicine, every single illness has a remedy," says Dr. Lam Tai-pong, an assistant dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Hong Kong. That means Chinese patients are more likely than Westerners to visit the doctor for minor illnesses, and when they go, they are more likely to expect some kind of medication. In addition, most mainland Chinese hospitals lack modern diagnostic resources, leaving doctors unable to tell which bacteria might be causing an infection or whether...
...option that lets you work out without working up a lather. Bluetrail, a 1.6-km-long exercise path starting in Bürkliplatz in the Swiss city's business district, was designed to get everyone moving, even men in suits. The trail's blue panels display gentle Tai Chi and qigong-like exercises. Communications agency owner David Güggenbuhl, who worked with Chinese doctors to develop Bluetrail, says, "One requirement was that these exercises could be done in a suit and tie without looking ridiculous." Certainly, nobody snickers when local architect David Marquardt, 38, drops his briefcase and performs...
...That includes the Shan stronghold at Loi Tai Leng, where almost every resident is a victim of the Burmese military or a witness to its savagery. Wi Ling, 34, stands outside his newly rebuilt shack on one good leg and one bad. Two years ago he was living with his family near Taunggyi, the Shan state capital, when Burmese soldiers dragooned him and 14 other villagers as porters. Three were shot dead, while Wi Ling was forced at gunpoint into a suspected minefield. A month after he was conscripted, he stepped on a mine, which blew most of his left...
...Local people carried him to Loi Tai Leng, where he was nursed back to health and given a rudimentary prosthetic stump. Later, his wife and three children?then aged 9, 7 and 1?trekked for more than two months through malarial jungles to join him. Four women from his home village were raped by Burmese soldiers, claims Wi Ling?credibly, since the systematic rape of women and girls by the junta's troops has been well documented by international rights groups, and many rape victims have sought refuge at Loi Tai Leng. "I'll return to my village," says...
...Tiya eventually escaped to the comparative safety of Loi Tai Leng. His wife is in prison, so his two children are cared for by grandparents. He hasn't seen them for six years, and unless they make the perilous trek to Loi Tai Leng, he never will. He cannot safely return to his own village. "The Burmese soldiers will recognize me. I'll be killed for sure." Now remarried, he has two more children, and his new wife is heavily pregnant with a third...