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Mexico and Thailand have announced that they would like to phase out CFCs on the same timetable as the developed nations. One factor spurring them on may be the likelihood that exports not meeting strict ozone-friendly standards could soon face international sanctions. But there is also grass-roots pressure in some developing countries. In Mexico, for example, consumer complaints persuaded local manufacturers that it was time to begin removing CFCs from aerosol products. The changeover happened so quickly that when one company ran out of labels saying THIS IS A CFC-FREE PRODUCT, store managers rejected the shipment, knowing...
This simply underlines how many games there now are in town. New York, London and Tokyo may be the heavyweights, but there is action in Thailand, Jordan and Chile as well. Datastream International, a company that provides market data, tracks 40 stock markets worldwide. Brokerage houses now need the horizons of travel agents to satisfy a clientele no longer content to stay at home. Much treasure lies buried on distant shores, in places that used to show up only in holiday brochures or travelogues...
Growth, Change or Conservation? Buddhist Ecological Action in Thailand--with Susan Darlington of the Hampshire College School of Social Science. In Coolidge Hall, room...
Efforts are also being accelerated on the research front. The World Health Organization, which had held up field trials of several experimental AIDS vaccines pending tests on animals, announced last week that it would skip the time-consuming lab trials and test the vaccines on humans in Brazil, Rwanda, Thailand and Uganda, perhaps within two years. In the U.S. the Centers for Disease Control is considering doing the same thing in the country's AIDS hot spots...
...best-known pioneer of Pacific Rim cooking is Wolfgang Puck, California's reigning celebrity chef. When it comes to dining, he maintains, Californians love novelty. "There are so many cultures with exciting cuisines here," observes the Austrian-born Puck. "After all, the culinary heritage of Thailand is more interesting than Poland's. Californians are very open. They're less likely than back East to go for pot roast or baked scrod!" When he started up Spago in Beverly Hills, he employed young Asians in his kitchen. In 1983 Puck decided to look East himself -- Far East -- with Chinois on Main...