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...Zhang Wenkang, who for weeks had steadfastly denied that there was an epidemic. Wu was committed to transparency. "She told me things she didn't have to because she values openness," says Henk Bekedam, the World Health Organization's China representative. Wu has turned her attention to a far deadlier plague. The Health Ministry reckons that China has 840,000 HIV-positive citizens, but the nation only recently admitted it had an epidemic. Last December, Wu descended from China's cloistered leadership compound and met one on one with the country's top AIDS activist, a retired country doctor named...
Lung cancer is deadlier (it killed 150,000 Americans in 2000, vs. 120,000 for COPD), but COPD is more common--by a long shot. Some 13 million Americans suffer from COPD, nearly 40 times as many as have lung cancer. In fact, this "other" lung disease--a condition that includes more familiar illnesses such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema--is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., after cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and stroke. The number of deaths due to COPD has nearly doubled over the past two decades, and the most dramatic increase has occurred...
This is why “Mad” Mike Banks, one founder of the seminal Detroit producer/DJ collective Underground Resistance, said “techno is deadlier than rap” even though the latter’s the one that yells in your face. Electronic music (modern hip-hop, which is indeed 95 percent electronic, is still 5 percent “real”) takes you from all angles. It implicates you directly as part of the phenomenon—forces (assumes, even) a response because it is effect. It could hurt you or captivate...
...mutated in a matter of months from a form that could infect only 3% of people who came in contact with it to one that infected 70%. Once it mutated, SARS quickly spread around the world, infecting thousands and killing more than 900. A hybrid H5N1 could be far deadlier...
Still, as it took shape, Rumsfeld left his marks on the war plan--and then slapped a new coat of paint on the thing when he was done. Rumsfeld's notion was to do more--and do it faster and deadlier--with less. So he mixed in a larger number of special forces than the Army had originally envisioned, giving the commandos a central role. He shortened the soften-'em-up air war to just a few days instead of the more traditional few weeks. But the final surprise belonged to Franks: he opted to begin the ground war before...