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JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 5.25
12/13/99 - 12/24/99
VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public
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For The Uninsured, America's Medical System Specializes In Negleget
By Wendy Johnson, M.D.
Date: 12-17-99
A doctor who treats the uninsured and underinsured in America becomes a practitioner in a niche with few medicines or tests and no high-tech studies -- a medical system that specializes in neglect. PNS commentator Wendy Johnson, M.D., is a family practice physician working in a public health clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Her e-mail address is wendyj@igc.org.
VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News
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Why The Wen Ho Lee Case Sticks In The Craw
By George Koo
Date: 12-13-99
No one doubts the seriousness of the charge of mishandling nuclear secrets. But from the start, the charges leveled against Los Alamos scientist Dr. Wen Ho Lee have smacked of political McCarthyism to many in the Asian American community. PNS commentator George Koo is a business consultant and political activist in Silicon Valley. His email is gekoo@dttus.com.
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Who Knows What A Better Life Is? Sometimes Children Do
By Kimi Eisele
Date: 12-14-99
In late November a Cuban boy survived a trip across the open sea in a storm that killed his mother and landed him in Miami. Should Fidel Castro or anti-Castro Cuban Americans decide where he should live? Did he want to come at all? PNS correspondent Kimi Eisele reports from the Mexican border that not everyone yearns for an immigrant's life in America. Eisele is writing a collection of essays about children and globalization on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Real Y2K Problem -- Two Million Prisoners In 2000
By Vincent Schiraldi And Jason Ziedenberg, The Real Y2K Problem
Date: 12-20-99
With less than five percent of the world population, America holds one quarter of the world's prisoners -- an indication that the criminal justice system has overreacted. PNS commentators Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg are with The Justice Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that analyzes criminal justice policy.
PACIFIC PULSE: The Pacific Century and Its Impact on the Americas
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Chinese Residents Of Macau Exorcise Old Demons
By Susanna Chui-Yung Cheung
Date: 12-20-99
Europe's oldest and final enclave in East Asia returned to China on Dec. 19, prompting nostalgic reveries of its romantic past. But many Chinese residents of the city sought to exorcise a different ghost, one evoked by the early 20th century poet Wen Yiduo. PNS commentator Susanna Chui-yung Cheung is a correspondent for the Chinese Section of the BBC World Service based in Hong Kong.
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East Asia After The Crisis -- The Smugness Is Gone
By Andrew Lam
Date: 12-22-99
Like a patient coming out of a high fever, East Asia today, three years after the financial crisis struck, is in a mood of utter sobriety. People all over the region are rising to smell the coffee in the morning and appreciate the cool fresh air. The world is more real somehow, more grounded. PNS editor Andrew Lam, a Vietnamese American writer and essayist for NPR, spent the last two months in East Asia. Lam wrote this for New California Media's web site at ncmonline.com. Lam's e-mail address is lam@pacificnews.org
CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World
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Tracking The Ethnic Vote -- Brown's Secret Weapon -- The Chinese Vote
By Rene Ciria-Cruz
Date: 02-19-99
The mayoral runoff saw the biggest effort to turn out the Chinese vote for victorious Willie Brown -- and it worked, reports PNS editor Rene Ciria-Cruz. He is also the executive editor of NCMonline.com, a multi-ethnic news media website.
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Tracking The Ethnic Vote -- New Coalition OF Chinese And Blacks Emerges In S.F. Mayor's Race
By Song Xiang and Charles Jones
Date: 12-15-99
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and much of the mainstream media credited his turn to the West -- to the city's staunch Republican white voters -- for his landslide reelection. But Brown also forged a precedent-setting new coalition made up of Chinese immigrants and African Americans. PNS' New California Media reporters tracked the ethnic vote on election day in a heavily Chinese precinct and in an inner city neighborhood where most young black residents can't vote. Song Xiang is a reporter for NCMonline. Charles Jones is a 22-year-old father of two and writes for YO! Youth Outlook, PNS' monthly youth newspaper.
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Alfonso Serrano F., Tracking The Ethnic Vote -- San Francisco's Progressive Movement Has One Key Ethnic Foothold -- Latinos
By Alfonso Serrano F.
Date: 12-16-99
As they gear up for next year's district elections, defeated mayoral candidate Tom Ammiano's youthful and largely white activists need to reach out to the ethnic neighborhoods of the city. And the good news is they already have a foothold among Latinos, reports PNS associate editor Alfonso Serrano. Serrano is also an editor of NCMonline.com, a multi-ethnic news media web site.
MOVEMENTS: Strategies For Survival, Identity and Direction by People on the Margins
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Lessons Of Seattle "Teach-In" Rippling Out Worldwide
By Diana Scott
Date: 12-21-99
Thousands of students and young activists who joined the Battle in Seattle against the WTO have taken their lessons back home where they are making films, planning forums and panels, turning to e-mail and other media to sustain the momentum into the new year. PNS correspondent Diana Scott, a freelance writer living in San Francisco, covered the anti-WTO protests and has stayed in touch with many of the demonstrators.
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An Environmental Argument For Same-Sex Marriage
By Andrew Reding
Date: 12-23-99
Extending marriage to same-sex couples is not only right for their personal fulfillment, as usually argued, but also important for the long-term survival of humankind and preservation of the global environment. PNS associate editor Andrew Reding is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute in New York, and a city councilman in Florida.
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