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Persons who enter the hospital's emergency room with upper respiratory complaints are issued a facemask and taken to a separate waiting room so as not to potentially infect others. He says he hopes healthy people with minor flu symptoms will follow the CDC's advice and stay home. "There's not much we're going to be able to do for you anyway, and we don't need you in the waiting room infecting the person with the broken arm or whatever," he says. "It's a virus, and it will work its course. If you're healthy...
...Oaxaca. After she was deported, the Oaxaca state government's Institute for Attention to Migrants fought successfully to have the twins repatriated to her in Mexico this summer. In such cases, says the SPLC's Bauer, a lack of interpreters is a key factor. When a mother can't follow the proceedings, "she looks unresponsive, and that conveys to a judge a lack of interest in the child, which is clearly not the case," she says. She also argues it's hard enough for any adult to learn a new language, "let alone when you're a migrant working long...
...Italian journalist Massimo Donaddio noted in the daily Il Sole 24 Ore that Saudi Arabia's coach, at the recent World Athletics Championships in Berlin, declared that his athletes would strictly follow the Ramadan fast during the competition. The Saudis won exactly zero medals, writes Donaddio - but then, so did the Italians...
...other thing is basic prison etiquette. A lot of people don't know how to be respectful - period. They're cocky and they walk around with a chip on their shoulder. Now they don't even have a name; they have a number. They have to follow rules. And they have to make sure they don't do stupid things...
Popular culture and movies would have you believe that to survive in prison, you're supposed to pick a fight right away. That's just movies. You don't want to pick a fight with anyone. If you follow directions, you can go in and come out with no problems whatsoever. I'm thinking of a guy who was well known and came out with no problems, and he was 5 ft. 2 in., 130 lb. If you start being a whiny bitch, people will take advantage of it. You start crying about your sentence and your innocence, people...