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...million last year. The lack of cooperation extends to matters of public health, too. When authorities in northern Cyprus announced last year that they had identified a case of avian flu, Greek Cypriot authorities refused to acknowledge the warning and accused Turkish Cypriot authorities of trying to spread alarm and discourage tourism. Meanwhile, officials continue to bicker over cases like the Guzelyurtlu murder. "We won't recognize the [Turkish Cypriot] courts because that would mean recognizing the government," says Attorney General Clerides. For his part, a senior Turkish Cypriot official told Time that the northern authorities have no intention...
...risk-reduction strategies” that currently exist for SIDS, including having children sleep on their back, said David S. Paterson of Children’s Hospital Boston and a co-author of the study. “The brain stem works as an alarm, a kind of control and integration center, for determining physiological changes in the body... if the system is defective and you’re lying face down, you will die,” he added. Cathy Spong, chief of the pregnancy and perinatology branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD...
...scramble from the shower after hearing a fire alarm and stand outside your dorm in flip flops (and hopefully a towel), no doubt you have considered fire alarms more of a prankster’s delight than a constructive use of your Sunday night. But in 2001 alone, The Crimson reported a fire in the Eliot House Grille and an unidentified naked man in a Cabot bathroom. Last year, a convicted rapist lurked the Mather hallways posing as a fire inspector, and a burst toilet pipe flooded rooms and destroyed ceilings in Cabot. So while fire alarms might just seem...
...country changing as rapidly as China is, people often take comfort from things that remain the same. That may explain the alarm felt by residents of the western city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, when they noticed that a stretch of the 3,400-mile Yellow River was not yellow - not even tan - but a color closer to magenta. By the next day China's official news agency, Xinhua, had published photographs of the Biblically hued slick and reported that an unknown substance spilling out of a local sewer had caused the river to "turn red and smelly...
...door is propped open, alarm will sound” Rarely, if ever, true...