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Swine Flu's Revenge The H1N1 virus reminds me of the SARS epidemic that hit Hong Kong and South China in 2003, but with possibly more dangerous implications [Aug. 24]. Whenever there's the threat of a wider pandemic, it seems our scientists cannot cope easily with the task of dealing with the disease and eradicating it. The virus' rapid ability to mutate and evolve is indeed scary. I fear for what's next. Jane Carla Yu, Manila...
...past, the action was akin to throwing a snowball. In fact, on the Dalai Lama's first full day in Taiwan, the two sides, once the most implacable of foes, inaugurated direct regular flights - the first since the Chinese civil war ended 60 years ago. New history cannot be denied. (See pictures of Taiwan's typhoon terror...
...true” story then placing it deferentially aside. One does not get the sense that the sparseness of the secondary characters is simply a matter of avoiding lawsuits or friendly respect for privacy. It seems that, for Hoffmann, if the truth may also belong to someone else, he cannot presume to offer the definitive version and so will deliberately stray. He is fundamentally concerned with honest communication, and he beautifully distills the small revelations from the events of his particular life. To read “Curriculum Vitae” is to briefly shadow the patterns of a remarkable...
...competed for the U.S. embassy contract, which ArmorGroup won with a substantially lower bid. Now, Wackenhut has found itself managing the Kabul embassy contract anyway. In June, Wackenhut vice president Samuel Brinkley admitted to Congress, "We feel we can safely say that adequate guard services for the Kabul embassy cannot be provided for the contract price." Instead of making a profit, he said, the firm was losing $1 million a month. "We would welcome any help that the [Senate] Subcommittee [on Contracting Oversight, of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs] might be able to provide to enable...
...Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass”—touches on an array of different genres and styles. The middling songs on “Beat Your Ass” were often indistinguishable and therefore inoffensive; the same cannot be said for “Popular Songs.” Each track here is crafted and orchestrated, nurtured and cared for. This means that the highlights here are just as high, if not higher, but the lows are more prominent as well.In the midst of swirling bells and dense backing harmonies, “Avalon...