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...Wednesday, in the most aggressive attempt yet to contain the epidemic, Beijing officials ordered the quarantine of all offices, hotels, restaurants and residential buildings that may have been visited by infected individuals. At Peking University's People's Hospital, the quarantine orders left some 2,000 healthworkers and patients isolated and at the mercy of the rampaging virus. At least 70 doctors and nurses and 20 patients at the hospital were already carrying the disease. In an effort to prevent the disease from spreading, Beijing has begun touting a soon-to-be-finished facility dedicated to SARS victims; wards...
...true that firms are forced to do some minimal reconciliation on their tax forms and accounting statements do contain well-buried footnotes that similarly try to reconcile these figures. Yet, these reconciliations provide very limited detail (in tax forms) or are completely opaque to even the most nuanced analysts (take a look at the tax footnotes of any major corporation). As such, a minimal solution would be the clarification and elaboration of these differences in public documents. More generally, a wholesale revisiting of the rationale for departing from book-tax conformity seems long overdue...
...fashion-fabulous tradition of “Sex and the City,” Zidel says, her book will also contain style advice. “It is important. Different outfits and different looks send different signals, ”says the Lowell junior, whose plain white cotton shirt and simple earrings send no clear message...
...absence of any new cases for a continuous 20-day period is an encouraging indicator that appropriate detection and protection measures...are able to contain outbreaks” according a WHO press release...
...station and study the effects of weightlessness on bone density. The Russian space program is currently the only means of sending humans into space since NASA's shuttles have been grounded until next year for certification. Cracking Up ukraine Officials conceded that the concrete-and-steel shell built to contain the damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl is in danger of collapse before its replacement is completed. The new structure, costing hundreds of millions of dollars and partly financed by the international community, might not be finished until 2010. The admission was untimely, coming days before the 17th anniversary...