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...vaccine shortage never materialized, but that doesn't mean we're free from the flu yet. Health officials from around the world gathered in Vietnam last week to discuss a virulent form of bird flu that has already caused dozens of deaths in Asia. U.S. officials are moving quickly in case it spreads. Here's what you need to know...
After more than 40 years, serving under every President since Kennedy in such trouble spots as Vietnam, Honduras and Iraq, U.S. ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte, 65, is the consummate diplomat--discreet, deliberate and always careful choosing his words, whether in English, French, Greek, Spanish or Vietnamese. So a day after President Bush nominated him to be the nation's first Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Negroponte's brief exchange at a breakfast with the ambassadors representing the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council was telling. Asked by a diplomat whether he should "congratulate you or offer condolences...
...school at Exeter and college at Yale, where he played a mean game of poker and one of his classmates was CIA Director Goss, who will soon be reporting to him. After graduation, he joined the foreign service and was posted first to Hong Kong, then in 1964 to Vietnam. There he attracted the attention of a visiting Harvard professor named Henry Kissinger, who brought Negroponte to the National Security Council during the Nixon Administration, but the two fell out when Negroponte complained to his boss that the Paris peace talks had essentially sold out the South Vietnamese. As Secretary...
...Dengue? Australian scientists working with Vietnam's Ministry of Health are experimenting with tiny, one mm.-long crustaceans called MESOCYCLOPS, which fight dengue fever by eating the larvae of mosquitoes that carry it. Villagers in Vietnam transferred the shellfish into mosquito breeding grounds where they are not usually found. Dengue is notoriously hard to eradicate but since 2002, there have been no cases of the disease in test areas. Still, scientists are cautious about widening the program to other regions: in Africa, "Mesos" are carriers of the notoriously parasitic Guinea worm...
...election in Iraq was a fraud. Many of the candidates and party platforms were secret. It was similar to the rigged 1967 election in South Vietnam that brought to power the corrupt President Nguyen Van Thieu. Roedy Green Victoria, Canada...