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...hospitals lack the resources to treat an outbreak. In Shanxi province, just southwest of Beijing, eight patients have died, and overcrowded hospitals are turning patients away. Locals have begun to express openly their disgust with official denials of the size of the epidemic. Says the relative of one victim: "It is really bad that the government doesn't care about ordinary people's lives." No matter how long it takes for China to overcome SARS, that's an indictment from which the country's rulers may never recover. --With reporting by Matthew Forney/Guangzhou and Susan Jakes and Huang Yong/Beijing...
...capital that martial law was about to be imposed. But in the U.S., only about 40 people are believed to have severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The number of cases doesn't seem to be growing, and--most reassuring of all--as of last Saturday, not a single victim had died...
Beyond that, the physical mechanism by which SARS is spread is still unclear. In mid-March, Hong Kong officials thought they knew how to control the epidemic. Since SARS seemed to require close contact with a victim, anyone suspected of infection was quarantined, and doctors and nurses were careful to wear protective clothing when dealing with patients. Then came Amoy Gardens. Clusters of cases began proliferating in the giant, 33-floor apartment towers in Hong Kong. Ultimately, more than 300 residents of the complex came down with SARS (at least 15 have died), even though many of them seemed...
...imagine if you can what it must feel like to be the family and friends of Michael Colono, the 18-year-old Cambridge victim. Instead of reading newspaper articles devoted to the death of Michael, you read articles about the academic achievements of the man who stabbed...
...Crimson (3-10, 1-5 Ivy) frequently fell victim to the cold, blustery conditions that have so often handcuffed its play at home, never adequately adjusting to the driving rains that shut it down as well as any opponent...