Karl Taro Greenfeld
Karl Taro Greenfeld is the author of three books about Asia, including the newly published China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), from which this article is adapted. He was editor of Time magazine's Asia edition from 2001 until 2004 and is currently editor-at-large at Sports Illustrated.
