Kosrae

To walk in Kosrae is to announce that one is too poor to ride, and Kosraeans offer a lift to every casual stroller.

New World Syndrome 2001

To walk in Kosrae is to announce that one is too poor to ride, and Kosraeans offer a lift to every casual stroller.

New World Syndrome 2001

On a brighter note, Shell remarked, some healthful American imports were showing up in Kosrae as well — basketball and baseball were gaining popularity.

The War on Fat 2007

Kosrae is but one example — New World Syndrome, Shell discovered, is rampant throughout the South Pacific and beyond.

The War on Fat 2007

On a brighter note, Shell remarked, some healthful American imports were showing up in Kosrae as well — basketball and baseball were gaining popularity.

The War on Fat 2007

Kosrae is but one example — New World Syndrome, Shell discovered, is rampant throughout the South Pacific and beyond.

The War on Fat 2007

However nice the thought, increasing amounts of junk food are being shipped into Kosrae from the West, food importers say, and the island is about to import television programming.

New World Syndrome 2001

Kosrae is the smallest of four island states that make up the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the largest and most populous political entity to emerge from the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which placed the islands under U.S. administration after World War II.

New World Syndrome 2001

The big killer in Kosrae — what some epidemiologists call New World syndrome — is a constellation of maladies brought on not by microbes or parasites but by the assault of rapid Westernization on traditional cultures.

New World Syndrome 2001

Basketball, he said, was catching on quickly in Kosrae, as was baseball.

New World Syndrome 2001