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...Meanwhile, up north in the windswept autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, Liu Shutao, the careworn deputy director of the region's health department, openly frets over 19 confirmed and 13 suspected SARS cases. "We are very concerned with the spread of this disease," says Liu from a hotel in the regional capital of Hohhot, where he has been meeting day and night with local officials and experts from Beijing. While Beijing continued to suppress information, Liu and his health team conducted their own painstaking detective work to figure out how SARS arrived in their remote province. After weeks of investigation...
...biggest casualty of Seselj's noisy run may be voter interest. His supporters' fervor is matched only by the disgust of many ordinary Serbs, who see his continued presence as proof that the whole process is tainted. Their failure to vote could leave the post open indefinitely. On a windswept afternoon last week in the Square of the Republic, an American official working for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (O.S.C.E.) invoked the democratic tradition of Athens and Rome to urge Serbs to turn out. "It's about you," read a huge billboard behind him. "Vote! December...
...Chiclets head straight for the refugee encampment on the mesa. These people are the subject of one of Col. Walker's personal crusades. They were relocated to this dusty, windswept plateau, two miles from the nearest water, by a European NGO which promised to build them housing here. Since then they have languished in patchwork tents, neglected and forgotten. If Walker hadn't come up with a two month supply of wheat this summer, they would have starved to death by now. The Chiclets are trying to arrange permanent housing for them before winter hits; just in case, Col. Walker...
After the rally, the group spent a little over an hour at an Oktoberfest celebration in Manchester, on a windswept parking...
...place time forgot. The train yards, the vintage Soviet equipment, the windswept platform and the concrete stationhouse slowly crumble to dust. The physical plant is a throwback. So too is the human element. There are interminable delays for border formalities, with uniformed troops surrounding the train and sealing it off, big shot officers with visored caps and polished boots tramping from compartment to compartment, demanding visas, passports, papers, documents. They are stamping, stamping, stamping with boots and rubber stamps. Then there is the waiting while the official party repeats this process in each and every compartment in each and every...