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...fact, as Dr. Richard Besser, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pointed out just a few hours later, there's no real risk for a healthy person in the U.S. to ride mass transit - not with the outbreak as small as it is currently. It's true that crowded trains and subway cars can be a vector for disease transmission if sick people are on board. You can catch the flu if you're within about six feet of a sick person - otherwise known as the "breathing space" - who coughs or sneezes...
...wisdom of the world. While scholars from throughout the world were allowed to come and study at the library, texts were not to be shared with other countries. The Ptolemies banned the exportation of papyrus and confiscated many a scroll from Alexandria’s visitors. Why should the fact of power melt away now, just because we’ve changed mediums from the physical to the digital?Power relations are implicated in any library, when knowledge is concentrated under the auspices of any single force. Google Book Search really does not change the game. It merely translates...
...definitive in a way that is, at once, disappointing and unremarkable.“Time Out of Mind” was more than a change in fortune for Dylan; it was a change in philosophy, and until “Together Through Life,” that fact was easy to forget. After two albums consisting entirely of folk covers on acoustic guitar, “Time Out of Mind” saw Dylan stepping away from a bare musician’s role and toward a more auteristic philosophy, prompted by Daniel Lanois’ production. The arrangements...
...positions is incredibly limited. While OCS excitedly announces on its website that over 25 different industries were represented in last year’s OCR, it acknowledges that the companies represented are heavily weighted to the consulting and, at least until this year, financial sectors. This is an obvious fact to anyone who has ever used the program...
...says. “That’s why they went to this company, because they had a track record and they were apparently able to accommodate some of the expectations and demands. I don’t want to unnecessarily alarm people.”Lewis says the fact that Harvard is Mail2World’s client carries greater weight when it comes to maintaining privacy and reliability since a failure to accommodate a prestigious university could discourage other colleges to outsource e-mail services to Mail2World.Mason, the company’s spokeswoman, says that Mail2World has never...