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While the appearance of any new infectious disease is cause for concern, there is no need to panic--especially in the U.S. Of the 115 or so Americans suspected of having SARS, all have either recently traveled to Asia or come into direct, face-to-face contact with a SARS patient...
Most cases seem to be passed on through direct, close contact. When people sneeze or cough, they send virus-laden droplets of fluid into the air, which others nearby inhale. SARS may also be spread through water or sewage or contaminated objects like doorknobs...
...deadly as West Nile virus--SARS kills 3.7% of its victims, compared with West Nile's mortality rate of 6.7% last year--and evidently much less contagious than measles or even the flu. "It's the type of disease that seems to require a lot of direct close contact with somebody who's pretty sick," says Dr. Stephen Ostroff, deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta...
...press, this confusion of roles and erosion of protocol can be seen in the way high-ranking American officers--most, but not all, retired--offer themselves as pundits and commentators. They hint that they're still in close contact with the Pentagon, then proceed to lay out, with troubling specificity, where we'll go next, how quickly and for what purpose. Aren't old soldiers supposed to be tight-lipped and poker-faced? When Lieut. General William Wallace, who leads our ground forces, aired certain strategic and tactical misgivings that wound up on the front page of the New York...
...they missed the contact, the chance to unwind with someone who knew the other so well. Realizing that mornings were the only times they could carve out of their schedules, the friends decided about two years ago to have breakfast together. Now they meet at least one Thursday or Friday morning each month. Those early-morning sessions have brought their relationship back to what it was during their more carefree adolescence. "Since our meetings are fewer and far between, we've really learned to value our time together," says Holck. "Even if I'm exhausted, I make the time...