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...Urban Iraqis, also, are finally getting an opportunity to return to, or discover, normal life. Cautiously at first, and then in a deluge of bustling crowds - a human "izdiham" - Iraqis have returned to the streets and opened their shops and restaurants. There is certainly no shortage of food in much of Iraq, and in the streets of Najaf, the yellow humanitarian daily rations packages provided by the U.S. sell for 50 cents a piece. Of their contents, Iraqis appear to like only the raisins...
...continue living in a city the World Health Organization has advised against even visiting? For someone like me who has been fortunate enough to send my family away, I wonder when I can see my wife and children again. And perhaps most important, when will my life return to normal? Many of my friends and neighbors doubt that it ever will. My downstairs neighbor is moving to Australia in three weeks. Another friend who had planned to move to a new apartment has backed out of her lease. No one gives a reason for these decisions, save to shrug...
...unchecked epidemic on the mainland is a nightmarish prospect. Vietnam, Hong Kong and Toronto have, to varying degrees, reined in their SARS outbreaks, and life is slowly returning to normal there. But the disease still rages in the world's most populous country, posing not just a health threat but also a hazard to the economy and social stability. Containing the epidemic is just one of the government's challenges. Another is modulating public perception of how well its leaders are handling the fight against SARS. The stage is set for a massive political realignment, with the fate of China...
...Even in hard-hit Hong Kong, life is gradually returning to normal. Masks are no longer omnipresent, once vacant cinemas are filling up again?and the alleys are once more strewn with garbage. SARS-weary residents are encouraged by the slowing infection rate. "I have started going to karaoke again," says Julie Ong, a 24-year-old auditor who spent the peak of the territory's epidemic in self-imposed hermitage. "I just decided that I couldn't live like this forever...
...Cambridge Licensing Commission—which is responsible for issuing one-day liquor and entertainment licenses for House formals held on campus—offered Mather House a “license on terms different from the normal ones,” according to Mather House Co-Master Leigh Hafrey...