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Across campus, a panic settled over a roomful of first-years in Holworthy as they attempted to access course websites and check e-mail...
...TIME by police officials wrapping up their investigation into the plot, only began with the March 12 assassination. After the hit, the conspirators decided they would lie low while the government teetered. Then they would strike again--first at a Foreign Minister, then at two Djindjic aides. As panic spread, a special unit of the state security forces known as the Red Berets--some of whose commanders carried out the assassination--would step forward as guardian of the peace. The government would be forced to step down, and allies of Milosevic's bloody regime would volunteer to fill the vacuum...
...illness spread from its birthplace in southern China to put the world on alert. Yet with more than 4,800 cases in at least 26 countries to date, a disease that has rocked Asian markets, ruined the tourist trade of an entire region, nearly bankrupted airlines and spread panic through some of the world's largest countries has largely passed the U.S. by. Hospitals and schools were shut down last week in Beijing, thousands of people were put under quarantine, and rumors flew through the capital that martial law was about to be imposed. But in the U.S., only about...
...much of Asia, cautious optimism is replacing blind panic as the new response to SARS. Sure, China remains a high-risk zone, and Taiwan's statistics are looking bad. But if SARS is eventually defeated, last week may be remembered as the beginning of the end. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the SARS outbreak contained in Vietnam, one of the first countries to be invaded by the virus, and it lifted the travel advisory on Toronto. Meanwhile, Singapore and Hong Kong have brought their rates of new infections down to levels that many residents view as acceptable. "Our hope...
...Thomas, a Royal Society University fellow who is researching molecular self-assembly, suggesting that even if self-replication were possible it's likely to be on a scale that's pretty harmless. A more realistic fear, at least for many who actually work in the field, is that unfounded panic could hold back important research. That's not good enough for Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group, a Canada-based social-advocacy organization that wants a global moratorium on nanotech research until health, safety and environmental tests are carried out. It was ETC Group's research into the dangers...