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American pilots flying over southern Iraq held their fire as the Republican Guard massacred Shi'ites on the ground. Bush refrained from aiding Kurdish rebels in the north, although he finally sent troops and relief supplies to protect hundreds of thousands of fleeing Kurds who were in danger of freezing or starving to death...
Even if all these measures fail to eliminate SARS quickly or completely, they should at least minimize the danger. "People should be concerned," says Ostroff. "But I don't think they should be alarmed." The minuscule murderer in Dr. Nicholls' microscope sights is still potentially deadly. But it no longer looks like the monster it appeared to be just a few weeks ago. --Reported by Jim Erickson, Carmen Lee and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong, Sora Song/New York, Matthew Forney/Beijing and Daffyd Roderick/Toronto
...bulk of the outbreak, the disease should be easier to control with aggressive quarantine measures. Some doctors have also postulated that as the virus radiates from the initial patient, it becomes less virulent, meaning that those who come down with second- or third-generation infections may be in less danger. That could explain why in Europe nobody has died and most cases have not turned out to be life threatening. Says Dr. Joseph Sung, chief of clinical medicine at Prince of Wales Hospital: "I'm quite convinced that some people might have contracted the infection but not the disease. Some...
...torture to force him to reveal the boy's whereabouts. Gäfgen was arrested last year after police saw him collect a 31 million ransom paid by the boy's father. Police said they needed to make the threat in case the victim was still alive, but in danger. Gäfgen then gave police the boy's location, but he was already dead. Judges ruled that Gäfgen's rights had been violated, and information obtained from him was inadmissible. Unusual Suspects SERBIA The government crackdown on organized crime, which began after the March assassination of Prime...
...couch, tossing crumpled tissues into the wastebasket, the opposite danger loomed larger. That morning, The Early Show had interviewed its foreign correspondent immediately after interviewing the contestant most recently dismissed from Survivor. The odd juxtaposition startled me. I couldn’t help but wonder if both men were, in fact, stars of the same remote, contrived and engrossing genre...