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...deaths have been reported, health officials fear the virus may have spread beyond the walls of the city's hospitals, where it was originally contained. As a result, Toronto has been added to the WHO's travel advisory bulletin. In Beijing, where 750 cases have been confirmed, anxious residents are storming supermarkets to stock up on food and water, and lining up at train stations loaded down with luggage, hoping to escape to more rural areas less affected by the disease...
...always frightening to watch an outbreak spread. But it's also important to keep it in perspective. If you're anxious about SARS, keep up with the news and contact local health authorities if you fear you may have come in contact with SARS. In this situation, as in so many, information is the best defense...
...frosh, ignore anything that sophomoric sophomores or jaded juniors may tell you. Particuarly ignore the sob-stories of seniors anxious to re-live their youth. The truth is, things aren’t so bad—these heartwarming stories will prove that beyond doubt. And who doesn’t secretly love sticky rice, HUDS style...
...table - but its rhetoric right now suggests it is not expecting the U.S. to give it the security guarantees on which it insists, and is instead plowing ahead in search of a nuclear deterrent. And the Bush administration, also, may be responding to a need to placate its anxious allies in the region and resolve its internal policy dispute over North Korea. The best hope, going into the talks, had been for an agreement to hold further talks. But in the hostile atmosphere that prevailed on Thursday, it's not clear whether even that limited goal was achieved...
...mine has been (and I happen to believe that grocery bagging isn’t even a career, strictly speaking), in this uncertain economy concern about postgraduate plans seems to be nearly universal. Dining hall conversations revolve around summer internships; house résume workshops are thronged with anxious would-be investment bankers. We half-expect—and many of our parents fully expect—that we will find lucrative employment upon graduation, but the plum jobs that seemed our due in the early 1990s are disappearing. During last October’s Career Week, the Office...