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...word quarantine comes from Latin for 40, the number of days Venice required ships to stay anchored before landing to prevent the spread of the Black Death in the 14th century. Since 2002 the government has claimed broad powers to isolate anyone who poses a public-health threat--including those who may have been exposed but aren't yet sick--to contain a flu pandemic or a bioterrorist attack. Various states are flexing their muscles; authorities in Arizona have locked up a TB patient because he refused to wear a mask when he went outside. In New York, patients...
When both right and left, big business and the ultragreens are worried about what he's up to, call it a Dingell moment. He doesn't like ideologues. Extreme purity annoys him. "I write legislation from the middle," he explained. "I want to build a bill that will have broad bipartisan support that will have the public's confidence." And finally, "a bill that can be signed by the President...
...know how to react. Barbara had worried that she would lose him to gangs and drugs in high school. But he cleaned up and enlisted in the Army after graduation. It wasn't long before De Leon was shouldering a heavy SAW (squad automatic weapon) gun on his broad 6-ft. 2-in. frame through the rugged passes of Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division...
...betraying its principles or playing to the crowd, has become plainly, inescapably, pleasurable. Serra's success these days takes even him by surprise. "If at the end of the last century someone had said to me, 'You have a shot at the work being able to communicate to a broad base of people,' I would have said, 'A long shot...
...it’s competency, he has a very good chance.” Gertler added that Hubbard would be able to handle all aspects of the job. “I think what distinguishes him from the other candidates is that he has a broad set of strengths,” Gertler said. “The other candidates may be good at one thing or the other thing, but Glenn is good at anything.” Okonjo-Iweala, a graduate of the College, was a vice president of the World Bank and served separately as finance minister...