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...wonder that Hong Kong has taken some of the toughest measures of any country in the effort to prevent and control the spread of the H1N1 Influenza A swine flu, which has killed more than 100 people in Mexico and infected several in the U.S., Canada and Spain, with suspected cases in Israel and New Zealand. Surgical masks, quarantines and empty streets are all too familiar for the city's 7 million residents, who saw their normally bustling lives screech to a halt six years ago, when SARS killed nearly 300 people. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak...
Have we awakened a sleeping giant or stood up, at long last, to a local bully? President Obama's decision last weekend to authorize force against the Somali pirates holding Captain Richard Phillips brought the end of a crisis, but it may be the beginning of a longer military effort. This year pirates have attacked dozens of vessels in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, which leads into the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Egged on by generous ransom payments, they're holding more than 300 sailors hostage. Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, was the first...
...together,” Sengeh said. “We have guys on the team who want to go out and help, but who also want to play football. Why not have a tournament for that?” But without the athletic department’s administrative effort, the responsibility to organize the team is solely on the students. “It is a double-edged sword because we can do a lot more, but we have to do it all ourselves.” Kopelman said. “We schedule the games, we talk...
...junior Chas Gillespie led the pack with a fifth-place showing in the college men’s 5000-meter at Penn, posting a 14:01.99—the fourth fastest time in Crimson history and good enough for an NCAA regional qualifier.Gillespie’s tremendous effort marked an uplifting weekend for the Harvard men and women, as the squad readies itself to finish the season at Heptagonals in two weeks.“I think [that race] gives me some confidence, and it gives my teammates confidence as well,” Gillespie said...
...some 110,000 civilians who have poured out of the war zone - a fast-shrinking sliver of land still under Tiger control - since April 20 when the army broke through a key embankment in an effort to bring an end to the 25-year conflict with the ethnic separatists...