Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Dwight H. Perkins, Burbank professor of political economy at the Harvard Institute for International Development, contractors who produce shoes for Nike in Vietnam must pay a generous official minimum wage for foreign producers...
...result, the discourse often sounds very dated, an effect which is amplified by Vonnegut's deep and abiding suspicion of technology and his resulting unwillingness to give the so-called "Information Age" any serious consideration ("You're being cheated out of being alive!" he warned computer users). Even Vietnam receives only a passing mention...
Tran Khuong Dan, a construction foreman from Hanoi, was shocked when, in 1975, he finally saw his elder brother in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) after a 21-year separation prolonged by the Vietnam War. Gaunt and pale, the brother displayed symptoms that were all too familiar to Dan. The brother, like their father, was addicted to opium. "All around me," says Dan, "there were drug addicts." The habit eventually led to his father's death in 1976 and his brother's the following year...
...then set out on a cross-Vietnam journey with a single goal: to find a cure for opium addiction. He collected more than 100 herbal potions that villagers substituted for opium when their poppy crops failed and their supplies dwindled. Eventually, he decided on a drastic step: to addict himself to opium and experiment on himself. "I knew from my brother how dangerous this could be," he says, "but I decided this was the only...
...funding a study of Heantos' effectiveness , which will be overseen by the Johns Hopkins medical center. The brew will be analyzed at U.S. labs, and patients using it in Vietnam will be closely monitored. If Dan's elixir is proved effective, it may one day help the world's heroin addicts kick their deadly habit...