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...freelance journalist who recently attended a drag king workshop led by New York-based performance artist Diane Torr, the self-proclaimed “drag king ambassador to the world.” The plan is to go around campus as I always do, and to register how my shift in gender identity changes the way people interact with...
...euro in the past 12 months--is another driver behind the recent exceptional returns of international-bond funds. These funds on average have returned 16% in the past 12 months, vs. 9% for the average U.S. government--bond fund, according to fund tracker Morningstar. In response, investors have shifted $1.5 billion into international-bond funds this year. Even if the buck stabilizes, the foreign yield advantage makes diversifying this way worthwhile, and funds are the way to do it. The relative attractiveness of any one country's bonds can shift quickly as interest rates and currencies rise and fall. With...
...dramatic policy shift and a long-awaited sign that Beijing may finally be ready to address SARS as a dire health threat that cannot be contained by a policy of secrecy and prevarication. But fears remain that this move has come far too late?and that the virus is already spreading to China's vast interior, where hospitals are ill-prepared to deal with such a costly and complicated epidemic. "I'm most concerned about the provinces," says the WHO's Bekedam. "[They have] neither the financial resources nor the human resources to deal with SARS...
...hope now is that Beijing's high-profile policy shift late last week will quickly have a tangible impact, and not be seen merely as a PR ruse designed to limit damage to China's prestige and economy. But in the provinces, faith in the country's leadership has already been hurt as the outbreak has been allowed to spread virtually unchecked. "How can we trust Beijing when they lied to us for so long," asks a respiratory specialist surnamed Ma from the western province of Gansu, who is now reviewing recent pneumonia cases in his hospital...
...Researchers are even more worried that the coronavirus, which may be a mutated version of a virus common to animals, could mutate again, becoming more resistant to current treatments. "We are beginning to see patients not responding," says Tam, "and that's a very worrying development." A shape shift in the coronavirus' genetic code can make it more virulent and contagious. Highly mutable HIV continues to frustrate doctors, as it transforms before a vaccine can be developed...