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When news broke that a Georgia man had potentially infected dozens of fellow plane passengers, it sent a shudder through the global-health system. Now he's in isolation, with an armed guard outside his hospital door, and other passengers have been told to get tested. Just as there's no way to stop infected birds from migrating or dangerous viruses from mutating, the only way to stop a disease like this from spreading is to keep the carrier away from anyone he might infect. "We depend on a covenant of trust," said Dr. Martin Cetron of the Centers...
...June 5, 1967, war broke out between Israel and three Arab states--Egypt, Jordan and Syria--after months of threats directed at the Jewish state. At a Palestinian refugee camp named Jalazon, chiseled out of a stony hillside not far from Jerusalem in the West Bank, then under Jordanian rule, Nazmeia was expecting a child. Her brother Abu Fady, then 9, remembers his family listening to an Egyptian radio announcer describe how Arab troops were advancing on Tel Aviv. Within hours, the radio said, the Jews would be keeping company with fishes in the sea. "We were flying with happiness...
...Ping All-New England Region team. Shuman, who led the Crimson with a 75.08 stroke average, is now eligible for the coveted All-American distinction. In his debut season, the rookie earned a top-10 finish in three of the Harvard’s nine events and broke 80 in every one of his 20 tournament rounds. At the Ivy League Championship, Shuman finished in fourth place, and his best play came the following weekend with a second-place finish at the Northeastern Invitational where he fired a personal-best 70 in the second round...
...When fierce gun battles broke out on the streets of Tripoli a week ago pitting Fatah al-Islam militants against Lebanese security forces, few residents of Lebanon's second largest city had any taste for the shadowy faction which has rarely been out of Lebanon's headlines since emerging late last year...
Scherry was deployed to Anbar province in March 2007. He died after only about a month there. The Marines who broke the news to his mother said there had been an accident. Scherry had been riding in the turret of a humvee when he reached to get a low-hanging wire out of the way. Electric current killed...