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...Feng-ying, nurses' supervisor in Hoping's chronic-disease ward, says she saw no evidence of a deliberate cover-up. In her view, the real problem was that "in the early days, the criteria for diagnosing SARS were unclear." Indeed, Wu now suspects her friend and colleague nurse Chen Ching-chiu contracted SARS while trying to resuscitate a patient who was only later discovered to have had the disease...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, was half right when he warned that we have to fear fear itself. As Bruce McEwen of Rockefeller University and others have found, stress is bad for human health. Chronic stress suppresses the immune system. Worry too much about getting sick, and you’re more likely to get sick, or sicker, from any infectious disease. Stress also impairs memory and learning, increases the risk of Type II diabetes, and accelerates osteoporosis...
This is a chronic Democratic woe: lousy bumper stickers. The Republicans can trot out three two-word killers--STRONG DEFENSE, LOWER TAXES AND TRADITIONAL VALUES. Democrats are more likely to offer impenetrable position papers. In 1992, Clinton chose to fight the Republicans on their own ground. He used three one-word slogans and won with "Opportunity, Responsibility and Community." The moderate Democratic Leadership Council cleverly revised the slogan at its annual meeting last summer: "Opportunity, Responsibility and Security." Several of the Democratic contenders have fixed on security as a theme this year. Not just national security but homeland security, financial...
This week Joe Klein puts the nine announced Democratic candidates for President on the couch and offers a prescription for fixing the party's chronic election woes. From his days covering politics for Rolling Stone, New York, Newsweek and the New Yorker to his best-selling work of fiction--as Anonymous, he wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms...
...meltdown of one of the country's top lenders has long been expected given Japan's chronic economic problems, and Resona's plight will only add to fears that the worst is yet to come. Curiously, however, the bank's bailout request may be something of a victory for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's much-maligned financial-services czar, Heizo Takenaka. A Harvard-trained economist, Takenaka took up his current post last fall, vowing to clean up the banking sector, but powerful politicians thwarted his initial reforms. Takenaka retreated, seemingly having made yet another false start in Japan's halfhearted...