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...Chinese Taipei" - the same name Taiwan uses for its Olympic team. To health officials in Taiwan, the invitation did not come a moment too soon. The swine flu is expected to be the focus of the May 18-27 meeting in Geneva. "We will now be able to get firsthand information and assistance, and also provide our experience," said Dr. Yeh. With its experience fighting SARS, Taiwan is considered one of the more well prepared places for outbreaks of communicable diseases. On Tuesday, health experts began inspecting air passengers from North America before they disembark from their planes, and keeping...
...health officials in Taiwan, the invitation did not come a moment too soon. The swine flu is expected to be the focus of the May 18-27 meeting in Geneva. "We will now be able to get firsthand information and assistance, and also provide our experience," said Dr. Yeh. With its experience fighting SARS, Taiwan is considered one of the more well prepared places for outbreaks of communicable diseases. On Tuesday, health experts began inspecting air passengers from North America before they disembark from their planes, and keeping anyone with flu-like symptoms for further tests. At least this year...
...team conduct extensive fieldwork to classify invertebrate organisms in an effort to better understand how living things are evolutionarily related. “I take my students with me,” says Giribet, who affirms that firsthand experience with organisms is an essential part of studying OEB. “I took several graduate students, as well as an undergraduate student, to New Zealand a few years...
Zardari's helplessness reflected one reality - the Pakistani army holds the real power in the country - but it also fed the parallel reality of an infantile political class, constantly squabbling, incapable of acting effectively even in a dire crisis. Holbrooke and Mullen saw it firsthand when a shouting match broke out before dinner at the U.S. embassy between a prominent Zardari aide and a leading member of the lawyers' group that had successfully forced the reinstatement of Pakistan's Chief Justice. "They're both moderate, secular leaders," one of those present commented later. "They should be focused on the desperate...
...Having been a victim myself, through Madoff's West Coast feeder stalwart Chais, I know firsthand all about the high fees: 25% of income earned. Chais isn't talking, but that adds up to real money, enough to create, in his case, a foundation, the Chais Family Foundation, purportedly worth $175 million before Madoff's arrest on Dec. 11, 2008. The foundation is now kaput, as is Chais' financial sub-empire and as is, for that matter, my retirement. Chais has several lawsuits pending against him, including one by Eric Roth, the Hollywood screenwriter...