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...Their goal: to understand the virus itself. They identified the SARS virus several weeks ago, and now they are trying to come up with diagnostic tests. That's crucial. Early SARS cases present the same fevers, muscle aches and diarrhea as flu victims, and without a way to distinguish between them, the public-health system could be quickly overwhelmed...
Xanadu will sponsor a prose slam (public reading of prose) in an effort, according to Weatherall, “to distinguish ourselves from other magazines on campus. We wanted to figure out some kind of performance art that focused on prose rather than poetry...
...numbers of groups has stayed pretty constant over the past ten years, but I think more students are involved in the groups that we have now; and part of the reason for that has something to do with the admissions office. The only way the admissions office has to distinguish among these very smart people in the applicant pool is to look at things other than academics, and extracurricular activities form a big part. The problem with the burgeoning activities is that the space we have is not burgeoning, and the city is becoming more and more restrictive. Harvard owns...
...looting has subsided, partly because there is nothing left to take. U.S. troops who began last week as soldiers ended it as cops, trying to distinguish the bad from the worse. They did foil a bank robbery, recovering $3.68 million in American hundred-dollar bills from the thieves' car. But the ransacking of Iraq's national museum, home to some of the world's most precious antiquities, left a wound in the country's heart. General Tommy Franks took his victory lap through Baghdad, passing out cigars to his commanders and brushing off a legion of armchair generals...
...current law already guards against frivolous lawsuits by sanctioning lawyers who file them. And our civil justice system exists to distinguish “politically motivated” claims without merit from those where damages are in order. Judges exercising good discretion will dismiss frivolous suits when they arise...