Malcolm Ross, journalist and photographer: The perfect war correspondent?

Boundary crossing: the physician and the photographer.

Attorney - Photographer - Interpreter - Inspector

Under these major changes, two former classes of occupationally ĵ. deferred men, the 18-to-25-year olds, and the 25-to-30-year olds, have been lumped into a single Class. The requirement for deferment has been changed to "indispensable and irreplaceable to warsupporting activity" instead of the former "necessary' to and regularly engaged in." This means that Federal agen' «ies employing deferre...

From Our Foreign Correspondent

care professionals. We were overwhelmed by the warmth of our reception, and the friendship shown to us by the Chinese people. Since the revolution in 1949 health care in China has undergone radical reform, western-style medicine has become firmly established alongside the traditional Chinese medicine, and is the first choice for the majority of young Chinese, particularly in the urban areas. Th...

Malcolm Bennett

Poppy, who also was a co-organiser of the meeting, leads a new research project called ASSETS (Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems through Trade-off Scenarios). This project investigates two model regions at the forest–agriculture interface, one in Colombia and one in Malawi. The case studies cover around two million people, but the researchers believe that the results they obtain wi...

From Our Foreign Correspondent

Tiring of the touts and tourists in Kathmandu, I decided to travel to Pokhara to see the sun rise over Annapurna. In order to experience the rural way of life of the Nepalese, I scorned the comfortable tourist-bus in favour of the service-bus used by the peasants. At ?1.30 for a journey of 130 miles it seemed a bargain? but subsequent experience proved otherwise. Kathmandu bus-station is a mech...