Word: confrontational
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...than 3% of its victims but infected so many that at least 20 million people died in just 18 months--more than were killed in combat in World War I. And until health officials know for sure what they're dealing with, they tend to be overcautious. "When you confront new diseases and they begin to travel widely," says WHO spokesman Dick Thompson, "you have to do everything you can to try to stop the transmission...
...It’s easy to ignore numbers, but it’s art that stays with us—an image, a tune—and in the end may force us to confront our reality,” McGregor says...
Even after making the brief but significant journey across the Harvard Stadium parking lot, Wahlberg still had to confront the equally difficult task of re-learning the game he had left behind...
...Kirkuk may be just beginning - and it may put the United States on a collision course not with Saddam Hussein holdouts, but two of its key allies. Iraqi Kurds are cheering the arrival of their guerrilla fighters in Kirkuk Thursday, and the same news has Turkey's leaders confronting their worst nightmare about the war next door. The U.S. had promised Turkey that the Kurdish fighters would be kept out of the northern oil town, and that, indeed, had been Washington's orders to the guerrillas working with U.S. Special Forces to confront Saddam's northern strongholds. But once Saddam...
...Prompt action by local health authorities can nip an outbreak in the bud, saving lives and billions of dollars. "When you confront new diseases and they begin to travel widely, you have to do everything you can to try to stop the transmission," says World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Dick Thompson. "Maximum efforts in the beginning are justified." Although doctors and scientists decline to point fingers, it's increasingly clear that the Hong Kong government failed to recognize the potential threat when SARS first surfaced and downplayed its impact to avoid panic and bad publicity. As a result, the virus...