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...cases and three deaths in early April. According to Jiang, Beijing military hospitals suffered their first SARS death in early March, just as the city was hosting the politically sensitive National People's Congress. Health authorities quickly called an emergency meeting but instead of instructing doctors on how to contain the disease through public-education campaigns, Jiang says medical officials told physicians they were "forbidden to publicize" the SARS death "in order to ensure stability." Physicians in Shanghai were instructed by the municipal health bureau not to wear masks in the hospital, except in isolation wards and a few select...
...administrative compound of the Olympic committee in central Baghdad. Laying on its side beneath a pile of dead leaves not 20 meters from Uday's office was a refugee from a medieval dungeon: an iron maiden. About two meters tall, a meter wide and just deep enough to contain a grown man, the iron sarcophagus-shaped device was worn from use; rusty three-inch nails lined the inside of its doors and walls, pointing inward; they'd lost some of their sharpness. A reporter who put the structure upright and stepped inside determined that the maiden was still capable...
Harvard (5-19, 0-2 Ivy) led in both ends of its doubleheader but failed to contain the Big Red bats, which pounded a total of nine home runs from six different batters...
...wood-paneled interiors, is imposing. When the gallery moved in, the dust of 17 years was waiting to be swept out - as well as the carcasses of 50 dead pigeons in the chandelier. The opening show is a Hirst retrospective, including Love Lost - a submerged gynecologist's office containing 20 live carp - with the Hirsts distributed among the other works. Most visitors will enter at the front through a passage framed in white marble. The back entrance leads into a grand hall with some hyper-realistic Duane Hanson figures. (Don't disturb that exhausted tourist slumped by his luggage...
Summers says he is currently considering publishing a book that would contain the lectures and some of his other economic essays...