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...outside their borders. But more recently the world has become too interconnected for deception of that magnitude. In 1986, when a nuclear reactor exploded at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, the Soviet government initially tried to keep it quiet. But when Geiger counters in Scandinavia went haywire, Moscow had to come clean. This year the truth about SARS emerged after citizens infected in China traveled outside the country--and after the groundbreaking reporting of TIME and other international publications...
News of a widespread Shanghai cover-up would further devastate the credibility of the national government and perhaps threaten the political future of China's new President, Hu Jintao. Until its attempts to come clean last week on the situation in the capital, the Hu government's approach to dealing with SARS had been both craven and ineffectual. After the disease surfaced in China's southern Guangdong province in November, party leaders quashed media reports about its existence, fearing the public would stay home during the Chinese New Year holiday rather than spend money that could spur the economy...
Throughout the course of the game, B.C.’s (29-17, 11-4 Big East) senior first baseman and clean-up hitter Lisa Fischer had fallen prey to Bettinelli’s well-postioned pitches tucked along the plate’s inside corner...
...don’t consider anything clean,” Kianovsky said. “New information can always come up that could change everything...
...have criticized his new government, saying it won't be able to carry out its mission because it has ignored the younger generation within Fatah (many of whom have been waging armed actions). In fact, Abu Mazen has been criticized from many sides. Those who had expected him to clean up corruption in the Palestinian Authority have been disappointed - Yasser Arafat had a hand in 20 of the 24 cabinet appointment, so the old guard are still very strong...