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...effects of the disease that has plagued it since November. Decoding SARS is already like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle in the dark, say international health workers. China's opacity, when it has about half of the more than 2,400 reported SARS cases worldwide, is akin to taking away half of the pieces. Last Thursday, Health Minister Zhang Wenkang finally broke a four-month silence to revise the country's death toll upward to 49?a statistic many local doctors maintain is still far too low for concern. Zhang then proceeded to confidently state that...
...Bush administration's idea of modeling a postwar Iraq on the examples of Japan and Germany after World War II [COVER STORY, March 10] is naive. It took years of occupation to rebuild those countries, and Iraq is more akin to Yugoslavia than to Japan. Yugoslavia and Iraq were cobbled together from multiple states of losing empires (Austrian and Ottoman, respectively) after World War I. Even 20 years of U.S. occupation of Iraq, I suspect, would just delay the inevitable wars of secession and ethnic conflict there. I also suspect that future Presidents would not want to spend the money...
...Like Something Akin to the Sistine Chapel, But with Cows?" features Paul, who uses his art degree to design business cards at a copy shop and, since he lives alone, eats instant mac-n-cheese out of the saucepan. When Cindy, his old high-school sweetheart commissions him to paint a mural in one of the "Dairy Freez" stores she manages, Paul flies from Toronto to Georgia to oblige. Since both of them are single, they begin flirting, with Paul teasing her about her Dan Fogelberg CD. But when Cindy sends Paul, who is black, on an after-hours errand...
...issues. Interest in the Middle East is high on campus, no doubt fueled by a desire to better understand the events shaping the current world scene, and also because employers—especially governmental ones—often actively seek out recruits with an advanced knowledge of the region. Akin to the study of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the study of the Middle East is politically pertinent today and must be strengthened so that Harvard can be well prepared to study the new challenges that face our world...
...people - fights. The media may make it seem as if the battle today were racial, as if the President were lashing out primarily at the rich, land-owning whites left over from the bad old days. It's not. While the atmosphere in Zimbabwe is akin to what you might have found in apartheid-era South Africa - another place where music, from impoverished townships like Soweto and Alexandra, spurred the people on to action - the real fight here "is really black vs. black," says a Zimbabwean M.P. "It's black people against a black leader." "The old man makes...