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...ward at Tuen Mun Hospital in Hong Kong these days feels a little like getting clearance into a correctional facility. A woman cloaked in head-to-toe blue protective gear stands watch at the sliding glass doors, checking visitors' foreheads to ensure that no one running too high a fever gets through. Those who pass muster are given a blue surgical mask and entry to the fluorescent-lit waiting room. Those who don't are ushered to a clutch of plastic chairs outside, under a blue tent - a makeshift isolation and triage area - near a sign that says, in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hong Kong Flu Scare of '08 | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...most environmentalists, the answer to that depressing litany is to keep pushing the same message harder: cut carbon and cut it now. But a few scientists are beginning to quietly raise the possibility of cooling the planet's fever directly through geoengineering. The principle behind it is straightforward - compensate for an intensified greenhouse effect by reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth - but the techniques seem like pure science fiction. Just a few: using orbital mirrors to bounce sunlight back into space, fertilizing the oceans with iron to amplify their ability to absorb carbon and even painting roofs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geoengineering | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...week to his job as an economics professor at the University of York in England. But on a recent Saturday morning in their sunny Barcelona apartment, they have a more modest ambition: to get some medicine into their 2 year-old son, Maties, who's been running a fever since the previous night. Domenech holds the twisting, crying toddler, as his mom manages to pour the syrup down the hatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Family Matters | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...Professor Kenney points out that ordinary voters aren't the only ones who might be swept up by Obama fever. There are also the nearly 800 super-delegates to the Democratic convention - party officials and elected leaders who are free to vote as they choose. "I think as the momentum begins to shift again to Obama, it might have a real impact on those super-delegates. The trends appear to point to a good year for the Democrats - the war still troubles people, the economy is down, President Bush's poll numbers are low. The one thing Democratic leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning of Obama's Momentum | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...this year was different. Amaker fever swept the Crimson, and while December 1 seems so long ago, I was still holding out hope that the Ivies would be a different ballgame this year...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE REYES REVIEW: Harvard Down, But Not Yet Out | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

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