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...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 in Mexico...
...police to be prosecuted, and his vow to boost the halal-food industry and other local projects does not address the conflict's complex roots. By blankly rejecting Amnesty International's recent claims that the Thai military was systematically torturing Malay Muslims, Abhisit also struck a yoga position familiar in Thai politics: saving face by burying your head in the sand...
That said, The Mentalist works because it's such an elegant example of its kind; if it's comfort food, it's prime-grade meat loaf. Much credit goes to the sly scripts, overseen by Bruno Heller (HBO's Rome), which take the viewer to familiar places by clever routes, providing a jocular corrective to the relentless noir gore of CSI et al. The mysteries are engaging but not byzantine; you can probably figure out the culprit just a step before Jane does. And who doesn't want a handsome man to make him or her feel smart...
...model of consistency, shooting three, four, and three strokes over par in her three rounds. Having played the course in the championship last year, she had a few back-nine difficulties early but averaged only two bogeys for the next two rounds.“It was pretty familiar turf,” Balmert said. “Today, I was pretty level-headed and played consistent golf. I tried to make the course as easy as possible by staying out of trouble.”Cho, the newly-crowned Ivy League rookie of the year, took a more dramatic...
...Almost every time I walk between Boylston and Wigglesworth Hall, I get a whiff of the heavenly scent of laundry, the familiar and comforting smell of Tide Original Scent and Downy. My pleasure in this perfume is momentary, however, as I remember that the source of this pleasant olfactory experience is harming the environment and my fellow citizens...