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...Hong Kong government now reacts to public health threats like a well-oiled machine. Although authorities have identified just three people with flu-like symptoms who have traveled or have been exposed to someone who has traveled in recent days, they are on high alert. Two of the three people with respiratory ailments, a 77-year-old woman and her 4-year-old granddaughter, tested negative for H1N1. The third, a 27-year-old woman who had been to San Francisco, tested positive for a human influenza subtype, not swine flu. Rated "serious" on the government's influenza-alert scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons from SARS | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Guard's office for Search and Rescue Policy. (Of course, if you run out of gas on a sunny day, don't expect the Coast Guard to come racing over to tow you to shore. It will give you contact info for a towing company or put out an alert to good sea-maritans who might be able to help you out gratis, but the Coast Guard itself will only tow you in as a last resort - in which case you'll get unstranded for free.) In fact, the only time that the Coast Guard gets money back for rescues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get into Trouble Outdoors — Who Pays for the Rescue? | 4/25/2009 | See Source »

...Norman Conquests is so damned funny (though grounded, as Ayckbourn's comedy always is, in real human emotion) that it may simply perpetuate the misconception of Ayckbourn as a skilled boulevard entertainer. Which would leave American audiences still largely ignorant of the astonishing body of work by - controversial-pronouncement alert! - the greatest living English-language playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Ayckbourn: Man of the Moment | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Friday the President dispatched six warships to stop and search vessels headed for Haiti. He also ordered a reinforced rifle company of perhaps 600 Marines to proceed from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and there to go on alert, ready to fly to Haiti to help evacuate the thousands of U.S. citizens there, should that become necessary. It might not be necessary, though. At week's end, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, head of the Haitian army, and Joseph Michel Francois, chief of police, gave some indications that they were turning conciliatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In and Out with the Tide | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...ulcers - which often become infected and lead to amputations. Over a secure video link, the doctor and nurse discuss the ulcers and decide a course of treatment. For patients on blood thinners, who are at high risk of stroke, doctors can remotely monitor the blood work of patients and alert them if they are at risk of hemorrhaging or clots. The excitement over such programs is palpable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Denmark's Electronic Health Records Program, a Lesson for the U.S. | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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