January 31, 2003

Southward, Ho

By DAVID COHEN

Australia has become the academic destination for much of Asia. Can it handle the influx?

Yvonne Chung still likes to talk about how her life changed back in the fall of 1992. She was just 12 then, a tiny Chinese-Malaysian girl, as Ms. Chung tells the story, when she first set foot on American soil for a monthlong visit, along with her parents and older sister. It was, she says, the road trip of a lifetime.

"America had this amazing presence for me," she grins, recalling the

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