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...epilink can be designated as a suspected SARS case, much less a confirmed one. And proving that epilink can be very difficult. Two of Shanghai's confirmed SARS patients, for instance, reportedly lied about having come from Beijing. Consequently, they were kept for a few days in a normal fever emergency ward, where they were not as stringently isolated as they might have been at the hospital designated for suspected SARS patients. Says a frustrated Shanghai doctor: "If someone lies about where they've been, there's no way you can screen every SARS patient with 100% accuracy...
...rock 'n' roll and communism in 1950s Czechoslovakia in Big Beat, his debut feature. Czechs collaborating with Nazis in his Oscar-nominated Divided We Fall. As the protagonist of that movie, a Czech whose family hides a Jew, puts it: "You wouldn't believe what abnormal times do to normal people." "I like to explore national embarrassments," says Hrebejk. "I don't condemn them, but they are hardly virtuous." In the tragicomic Pupendo, which has yet to be released internationally, Hrebejk sets out to excavate the shameless opportunism and self-censorship of Prague in the waning days of communism. Named...
...landscape south of Baghdad bears evidence of fighting that never happened. Along the sides of roads are thousands of recently constructed earthwork bunkers, trenches and sandbagged gun emplacements, all facing south. Inspection showed that almost none have spent shell casings, cartridges, scorch marks or any of the other normal detritus of war. If they did hold soldiers at any time, the men had left before any shots were fired by or at them. In some places there are still signs of hasty departures: along the roadsides, discarded uniforms and berets; in buildings, scattered maps, manuals and gas masks...
...Because they only told me one day at a time what was going on, I held out hope that I was going to get to race that Saturday,” Lehe said. “I got out on Friday morning, and basically thought everything was back to normal...
...Sanja had been playing her normal stuff and been healthy, I don’t think it would even have come down to Bergman,” Graham said. “She would have won back there and this would have been over a long time...