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...ailing 78-year-old Chairman, receiving the President at his one-story Beijing home, noted apologetically, "I can't talk very well." But talk they did, for nearly an hour. After almost a quarter-century of nearly no contact, the U.S. and China had serious differences. But when the leaders clasped hands, a great wall had fallen...
...door yells at his master gunner, Sergeant Robert Jones, "You need to call HQ right now and tell them we have 10 men, 200 meters to the north, with AKs and RPGs." Jones jumps on the radio. "Break, break, this is Checkpoint Zero, Zero, Two, Two. We have possible contact with enemy soldiers. We are checking it out and moving into position now." The reply is instant. "Zero, Zero, Two, Two, this is Battle Five. If you have positive IDs, do not wait for them to fire. Destroy them...
...Doctors outside China were scrambling last week to pin down how the pathogen is transmitted?critical in stopping the disease from spreading further. After painstakingly tracing patients' histories, scientists have deduced that the disease is probably spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, such as phlegm. Here again, cooperation from Chinese authorities might have helped. As long ago as Jan. 21, an official internal advisory?issued to doctors in Guangdong and later obtained by Time?laid out how the disease appears to be transmitted. "Given that the explosion of the epidemic was mainly in the same area and some patients...
...have caught the disease from semiretired medical professor Liu Jianlun. He is believed to have been solely responsible for carrying the disease from Guangdong into Hong Kong in mid-February, after reportedly catching it while treating patients at a Guangzhou hospital. Scientists think Liu, 64, came into close contact with his fellow guests at the Metropole either while waiting for an elevator or riding from his room to the lobby. That would have put them within range of a sneeze or a cough?enough, it seems, to have turned them into a deadly squad of virus bearers who would disperse...
...which he was merely copied. Summers did, however, say at his installation ceremony in October 2001, “Whether in the classroom or the common room, the library or the laboratory, we will assure more of what lies at the heart of the educational experience—direct contact between teacher and student.” Although Summers is entirely correct that the Faculty should be made to provide more of the elusive contact that students crave and do not receive, he must also live up to his word that extracurriculars remain a major source of Harvard?...