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...West. U.S. and British officials condemned it for airing footage of allied POWs' corpses, and the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ have ejected al-Jazeera reporters. Hackers attacked its English-language website, replacing it with a red-white-and-blue U.S. map and the slogan LET FREEDOM RING. What better motto for people who shut down a news outlet...
...language of epidemiology, the study and prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, is steeped in the metaphor of blockade. Doctors and scientists develop "barrier" nursing techniques and try to erect "ring fences" within society to corral a dangerous microbe, preventing it from jumping between people and countries. But one of the lessons learned by Hong Kong, the city hit hardest by the deadly epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), is that it does no good to slam the ring-fence gate after the killer has left...
...This ring-fence approach, isolating suspected victims and painstakingly retracing their steps in the days before they fell ill, "showed us that infection control works," says Dr. Balaji Sadasivan, Singapore's Minister of State for Health and the Environment. It paid another dividend: authorities got an early warning that most victims were getting sick after visiting hospitals with known SARS patients. "The moment we realized hospitals were the most dangerous place, we designated Tan Tock Seng [Hospital] as a SARS-only hospital and shut it down to all other patients," says Sadasivan...
...America, to many Asians, once represented ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People whose lives were proscribed by poverty or tyranny or both at least knew there was a place where freedom was said to ring. The place's existence stirred hope in the most hopeless circumstances. And millions emigrated and found better lives there. Some religions allow the earthbound to imagine a heaven that might one day welcome them into its splendor; so, too, did America?a secular promised land?allow the world's dispossessed to believe its liberty, and its prosperity, could...
...only hope that Howard’s words ring true. I don’t think this world, already waist-deep in madness, could stand a gangland crew rivalry without imploding, simply crumbling under the weight of its own absurdity...