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...Pune were overwhelmed earlier this month when, days after India reported its first fatality in the pandemic, thousands of people mobbed public hospitals in the hope of being tested. "We've looked at the pandemic preparedness plans in developing countries and we've found that almost across the board the resources just aren't there to implement plans effectively. It's going to be very difficult for these countries," says Coker...
...Welcome Home” signs fared so well. The kid (at least in the version of the story I heard) is said to have made some serious jack—we’re talking several thousand dollars here, and all for little pieces of poster-board he probably designed at Kinko’s one Saturday afternoon. Perhaps he earned enough to make “George”—as he’s often referred to around here, sans the last name—proud...
...little white yard signs are all over my neighborhood, where the former President and First Lady moved after the Obama inauguration this past January. And these poster-board rectangles with the former Bush campaign logo put to a new (and arguably more effective) use have an interesting story behind them, apocryphal...
...help the court come to a decision, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a democratically elected representative body of Britain's Jewish community, has stepped in to act as an official adviser. According to spokesman Mark Frazer, the board's aim will be to make sure the court's ruling is right for even the most orthodox of Britain's Jews. "The board must cater for the highest watermark of religious observance in order to safeguard the rights of the entire community," he says. "The orthodox definition of who is Jewish, taking into account someone's parentage or lineage...
However, the board's involvement in the case has divided the Jewish community, with some questioning its neutrality. "This is the great con," says Geoffrey Alderman, an expert on Anglo-Jewry at the University of Buckingham. Alderman points out that the board is bound by its constitution to defer to its most senior ecclesiastical authority, Sir Jonathan Sacks, on matters of religion - and Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the U.K.'s mainstream synagogues, is head of the United Synagogue, which has already spent $225,000 helping JFS defend its case. (Read "Avigdor Lieberman: Politically Incorrect...