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...case," says the World Health Organization's Hanoi representative, Hans Troedsson. "It affects international public health and lack of information could have severe implications." Nor is the problem confined to Vietnam: many of Asia's governments appear slow to apply fully the lessons of openness and cooperation from last winter's major outbreak. "There are problems with transparency, difficulties sharing scientific information," says Dr. Yi Guan, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong. "We can't stop the virus without regional cooperation...
...year-old became the country's ninth person to die from the virus. News on the research front has been worrying, too. Recent experiments in the Netherlands have shown that cats can carry and spread the H5N1 virus, while South Korean scientists have linked their outbreak this past winter to migratory ducks. Such ducks have a natural resistance to the flu, so they can potentially spread the virus over wide areas without showing symptoms. "This may explain why the virus has reappeared in divergent areas of Thailand and Vietnam, and to me that is the real concern," says Dr. Robert...
...allowing daredevils to feel like they're swinging from the rooftops with Spiderman, while dancers can shake it with OutKast without ever getting up from the chair. Osim introduced the iSymphonic AV in Asia this spring, and a version without the video hookup will hit Britain and Ireland this winter for around $6,300. But buyers beware: this chair is sure to heat up competition for Dad's favorite seat in the living room?not to mention the remote...
...Iraq, many in the Administration believed that France and other countries opposed to the U.S.'s plans would fall under this spell. That remained true even as the war unfolded. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior Bush aide said bluntly in the winter of 2003. "That's called diplomacy--winning." Being certain and strong was also necessary, Bush believed, to keep his team motivated. "A President has got to be the calcium in the backbone," Bush told author Bob Woodward. "If I weaken, the whole team weakens. If I'm doubtful, I can assure...
Meanwhile, smaller museums can barely afford enough guards, relying instead on elderly docents. Just last month A Winter Landscape by the Dutch painter Esaias van de Velde was stolen from the Wallraf Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany. The thief testified at trial that, after finding only two guards for three floors, he simply slipped the painting, valued at $240,000, under his shirt and went out the door. He told the court, "It's probably more difficult to steal a T shirt...