17 January 2005 Phuket, Thailand – While politicians around the globe are jockeying to reap advantage from the December tsunami that smote southern Asia, forensic teams from a dozen nations are conducting the gruesome task of trying to identify horribly bloated, decomposing victims of the tidal waves that killed 5,000 […]

January 10, 2005 BANGKOK – The Kwaktiutl native people of British Columbia used to hold a ceremony called a `potlatch’ to decide who was the biggest man in the tribe. The person who gave away the most gifts was the winner. This week in Jakarta, the world’s leading nations competed […]