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...unique contributions in their fields. “You don’t have to be a household name to be an outstanding leader,” Khazei said. Harvard’s Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul E. Farmer and Associate Clinical Professor of Social Medicine Jim Yong Kim, the two founders of Partners in Health, made the list for their work improving health care in poor nations. Both said they were surprised to appear on the list. “I can think of other leaders in public health and medicine who are better candidates for such...
...Hyun Yong loves soccer and baseball, and now he can watch games on his cell phone. Mobile carriers have invested heavily to make fast high-quality video streams a reality--until now with little success. But digital multimedia broadcasting, a new Korean technology, is finally allowing consumers to get video on the go. On May 1, TU Media, a subsidiary of SK Telecom, launched a satellite-based service that beams seven video channels to cell phones. (Nokia and Qualcomm are backing similar technologies that won't hit the market until next year.) Tu Media forecasts 600,000 users for what...
...plans to give it more flexibility to move quickly to prevent chaos. South Korea objected, fearing that Washington might use the slightest wobble in the Pyongyang government as an excuse to invade. "The U.S. wants more power if it sees a need to intervene," says opposition lawmaker Kwon Yong Sae. "There will be conflict between the U.S. and South Korea if something like this happens...
...Song's ordeal is part of a rash of brutal incidents that have pushed school violence and gang activities to the top of the national agenda in South Korea. In a chilling report released at a police-sponsored symposium last month, high school teacher Jong Sae Yong claimed that as many as 400,000 kids?5% of the national student body?belong to loosely affiliated gangs. The gang members call themselves iljin ("top rankers") and are involved in organized bullying, extortion and sometimes sex crimes. The Education Ministry says Jong's findings are exaggerated, but officials established a task force...
...video apologizing for her husband's crime.) But President Chen's foes claim that the assassination attempt was engineered to win sympathy votes?and with Chen the suspect dead, they argue that the investigators' findings are impossible to prove. "The police reasoning is far-fetched," complains Li Yong-ping, a legislator from the opposition People First Party. "All the evidence doesn't explain such a conclusion...