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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...where people routinely have their wallets blessed by Buddhist monks before the weekly lottery, belief in the long shot runs deep. The newspapers are rife with stories of benevolent ghosts who solve financial and familial problems. And last April, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was duped into thinking he could wipe out the national debt by unearthing lost World War II treasure in a muddy cave near the Burmese border. So who can blame Thailand's 700,000 AIDS patients for putting their faith in such cures as bitter melon extract (at one point certified by government officials), magic herbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Matter of Faith | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Paso and Juarez will keep jury-rigging solutions. Last year, when encephalitis broke out in Juarez, El Paso's spray planes "accidentally" crossed the border to wipe out disease-carrying mosquitoes. To reduce air pollution, El Paso is helping Juarez brickmakers redesign their kilns. And to eliminate the epic waits at border crossings, businessmen (from both sides of the border) fought for--and won--a "fast lane" for U.S. and Mexican citizens who are precleared by U.S. law enforcement agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: Two Countries, One City | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...something has gone badly wrong. The guerrillas are back in the cities and towns. The Kremlin has turned against the civilian it put in charge of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, and replaced the military commander. And Russian officials from the President down now say it could take many years to wipe out the separatist guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guerrillas In Grozny | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...said she was most insulted that Pryor had simply made a unilateral decision to wipe out all existing tradition...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Much Criticism, Institute of Politics Restructures | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...monoclonal antibody, a molecule specifically engineered to fit into the receptacles on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cells and, in this case, single out the cancer cell for destruction by the immune system. Back in the early 1980s, monoclonal antibodies were hyped in the media as "magic bullets" that would wipe out cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hope For Cancer | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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