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...comforting. No one tracks the total number of incidents cruise ships report to U.S. law-enforcement agencies. The FBI opened just 305 cruise-crime investigations from 2000 to September 2005, suggesting that either those floating hotel-casinos are some of the safest places on earth or this caseload is just the tip of the iceberg. Evidence supporting the latter: the FBI generally won't look into an onboard theft unless the items stolen are worth more than...
...older vaccine got a new look when a CDC advisory panel backed the broader use of a vaccine for hepatitis A in 1- and 2-year-olds, estimating that routine use in children could cut the national caseload of the disease by 180,000. For teens and adults, the panel recommended a booster shot for pertussis, or whooping cough, a highly infectious, long-lasting illness that has been on the rise since 1976, particularly among adolescents. The shot could prevent 1 million cases a year...
Beijing's new willingness to confront AIDS--China's HIV caseload, now about 1 million, is swelling as much as 30% a year--has given Zhou the chance to broach taboo issues like human rights and equality under the law. If he can champion the rights of AIDS patients, he reasons, then someday he may be able to do the same for gay men--or anyone else. Zhou dreams of representing a gay man in an antidiscrimination lawsuit, but so far, no plaintiffs are willing to brave the exposure. "Law and policy always involve compromise," he says, "and sometimes being...
Those are high-profile enforcement efforts, and yet they're only two of the 10 cases that Spitzer is personally working on. His caseload isn't entirely about corporate wrongdoing. He's also challenging a federal attempt to pre-empt states from enforcing predatory-lending laws, and a few months ago won a ruling that forced the Bush Administration to reverse its rollback of pollution regulations that applied to big utilities. "The EPA [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] cases are huge," he says. But Spitzer clearly sees Wall Street as his bailiwick; an avid and aggressive tennis player, he keeps...
...their caseload of 150 remains significantly lower than that...