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...their visits to Beijing hospitals. On April 20, the national Health Minister was fired in the most public sacking of a government minister on account of malfeasance since the Communists seized power in 1949. The mayor of Beijing was fired on the same day, and the government revised its count of suspected SARS patients in Beijing from 37 to 339. By the end of the week, that number had doubled...
...doesn't have much time. Some China watchers predict that former President Jiang Zemin, who continues to exert influence over the party, will try to shove Hu aside if the government fails to contain the epidemic and China's economy stumbles. There's little cause for optimism on either count. Citigroup economists have lowered the projected growth rate of China's economy this year from 7.6% to 6.5% as a result of the SARS scare. Meanwhile, the virus is picking up steam in the impoverished hinterlands, where public awareness of the risks of SARS is limited and hospitals lack...
...compete? Maybe. Can antipiracy laws be enforced? Perhaps. Can copy protection stand up to a hacker army of teenage Jon Johansens? It's possible. But all this raises an interesting question: What if the pirates win? If you play the thought experiment out to its logical extreme, the body count is high. After all, you can't have an information economy in which all information is free. The major music labels would disappear; ditto the record stores that sell their CDs. The age of millionaire rock stars would be over; they would become as much a historical curiosity...
...completely thrilled,” she said. “It’s something you shoot for for seven years, but you would be a fool to count on it or assume that it will happen. I feel very lucky...
...Brian Lentz has been right in the middle of everything we have done,” Walsh said. “Every game, you can count...