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...less than ideal. When it became clear that SARS was spreading from China to Hong Kong, Vietnam and Toronto, the administration issued a travel advisory urging faculty and students not to travel to those countries in which transmission of SARS was continuing. Within a few days of that alert, several of us were besieged by journalists from Toronto upset that their city had been cited by Harvard before the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a travel alert. Later that afternoon, Toronto discovered 29 new cases and 500 people exposed, and later that week the tone of questions from...
...people who have been in contact with known cases who may develop the disease and honest and timely reporting. The key is to take action at the earliest possible stage, before the numbers get high. Vietnam did that, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has just lifted its travel alert; China did not, and there are thousands of probable cases and so many suspected cases that the medical capabilities are now under severe strain...
...harm players is clear. Athletes use steroids to increase muscle mass and strength, but side effects can include liver tumors, high blood pressure, fertility problems, hypertension, increased hostility and aggression and cardiovascular diseases. Even more prevalent than steroid use is amphetamine use, which players take to stay energized and alert during night games. Possible side effects of this drug include an increased heart rate and blood pressure, restlessness, weight loss and heart failure. Ephedra, which has similar effects to amphetamines but is sold over-the-counter, can also be dangerous when taken before exercise, and was linked to the death...
...been planned well in advance. Whoever robbed the Iraq Museum took original artifacts while leaving behind near-perfect copies, and they evidently had keys to some of the museum's vaults. In addition, they trashed the institution's records, as if to ensure that it would be tough to alert art dealers to hot merchandise entering the black market. "I would be very surprised if it weren't professional looting," says John Malcolm Russell, an expert in Mesopotamian archaeology at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston...
...Saturday, most college students aren’t even awake yet. Yet on this morning, 71 students are sitting in Science Center C, alert and ready to begin thinking about determinants and combinatorics. By 6 p.m., they will have pored over math problems in two three-hour sessions...