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...February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero new victims are still falling ill and dying. One local doctor estimates that the true figure of those afflicted is probably double the official statistic. Across the country, in cities as far-flung as Nanjing and Beijing, medical staff are whispering that a strange pneumonia is also popping up in their hospitals?contradicting China's claim that the disease is confined to Guangdong...
More than half a decade ago, FAS unveiled the new government center, a plan to bring together the government department and a dozen far-flung area studies centers under one roof...
James H. Ware, dean for academic affairs at SPH, said that the University’s bureaucracy needs a “stronger center to act more coherently on far-flung issues...
...details of these far-flung crimes unfolded, the fbi was quietly trying to bolster its evidence against the suspects in the other Washington-area shootings. Law-enforcement sources tell Time that the fbi is testing saliva used to seal a letter left at the murder scene outside a Ponderosa steak house in Virginia for a match with either man's dna. Meanwhile, more evidence is emerging of the lengths to which desperate authorities went in an effort to catch the snipers. At the height of the Beltway crisis, fbi sources tell Time, the bureau's elite hostage-rescue team secretly...
...attack places Indonesia at a crossroads. From here, deterioration could accelerate, plunging the country into bloody sectarian violence, divorcing the economy even more from the international community, and turning its far-flung islands into increasingly fertile grounds for terrorism. If that occurs, Indonesia could sink to the status of countries such as Pakistan or the Congo, where economies are chronically dysfunctional and central leadership is largely incapable of governing. It doesn't have to go that way. The attack could strengthen the hand and the resolve of Indonesia's do-nothing chief, President Megawati Sukarnoputri, allowing her to stand...