Indeed, Linda Lim, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at the University of Michigan Business School, notes that the country's puny savings rate, chronic budget deficits and high ratio of nonworking dependents to workers make it look more like a Latin American than an Asian nation.

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In the 1960s, the country's military "was in power, and the Americans were around" due to the war in Vietnam, says Charnvit Kasetsiri, a prominent Thai historian and Southeast Asia expert at Bangkok's Thammasat University.

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After receiving my medical degree from Rush Medical College, and after completing my residency in internal medicine at Northwestern University I became a teaching physician Wayne State University and then at William Beaumont Hospital in Southeast Michigan.

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Nick Klingaman from Reading University says that, as it moves east, the MJO influences monsoon rainfall in Australia, India, Southeast Asia, South America and Africa.

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Late last week the University of California Berkley and Nokia study was held on this stretch of Interstate 880, about 30 miles southeast of San Francisco.

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At the Hilton Garden Inn Grand Forks, which is connected by closed walkways to the University of North Dakota's Center for Innovation, I heard Irish and Norwegian accents and saw two Southeast Asians working on a presentation.

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