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...particularly when the extent to which SARS has already spread remains a mystery. Kitty Fung, a microbiologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, says it's currently impossible to say for certain if efforts to contain the disease within the territory's Prince of Wales Hospital, where the bulk of the SARS victims are being cared for, have been successful. That's despite the fact that much of the huge hospital has been shut down. Stretches of the hospital's normally bustling corridors are eerily empty and reek of disinfectant. Everyone from security guards to janitors wears thick, double...
...were dropped in the entire 1991 Gulf War is designed to smash the regime's power centers and demonstrate to the Iraqi military that the regime they're deployed to defend has already ceased functioning. Washington hopes the "shock and awe" air campaign will prompt the bulk of the Iraqi military to allow the U.S. and its allies to occupy the country without a fight...
...idea in principle, but in actuality it would be an awkward space and likely an underutilized one. I could not agree more that the first floor at the street front should be commercial. However, local residents need to accept the fact that by asking for a building with less bulk, they are making it hard for Harvard to have much flexibility in the first floor program. My suggestion would be a “false front” solution. Instead of a retail store like the Pro, which requires a lot of floor space, the building should incorporate a take...
...sure, the markets have good reason to expect a swift U.S. victory over the armies of Saddam Hussein. But beyond that quick, or relatively quick collapse of the resistance of the bulk of Iraq's armed forces, all bets are off. The fact that Washington is planning to assume direct control over Iraq for an unspecified period and to leave upward of 100,000 troops on a long-term peacekeeping mission there suggests a recognition of potential for Saddam's removal to unleash bloody conflicts in a deeply fractured society. Although the President promises democracy and freedom to the Iraqi...
Though he briefly addressed the issues of cloning and stem cell research, Sandel devoted the bulk of his discussion of the ethics behind human genetic engineering to issues surrounding scientific selection of children’s gender...