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Suspended on sets of giant wheels resembling oversized aircraft landing gear, the historic three-story structure left its foundation at 96 Prescott St.—where it had stood for 116 years—around 9:30 a.m., and by mid-afternoon workers pulled the house into its new home on nearby Sumner Road...
...including wearing gloves, masks and gowns and vigorously washing their hands. The problem there may have been fatigue and complacency in the changing room. CDC scientists reported last week that the virus can survive as long as 24 hours outside the body: doctors and nurses who touch their protective gear while changing into regular clothing may be unwittingly exposing themselves and others to the coronavirus...
...been superspreaders. And health-care workers in the U.S. have not yet made any of the mistakes that tripped up the Canadians: a patient transferred from an affected hospital to an unaffected one, lax enforcement of isolation orders, hospital workers who may not have been vigilant enough with protective gear...
...Will communist cinema still dominate once private studios gear up? The government thinks it has the winning formula. Its next big production is Luoi Troi (Heaven's Net), which chronicles the lavish spending of corrupt officials and criminals. Hoang, who as a state employee, makes less than $100 a month, is already thinking like a Hollywood mogul-he's penning a sequel, Bar Girls 2. Speculation about the plot is already rife, since the original's main characters are all either dead or dying of AIDS. "People will just have to buy a ticket and see," he says. No doubt...
...first quarter on sales of $7.4 billion. It managed to do so with fewer employees than Ericsson, by concentrating on the healthiest end of the business. Ericsson gets 80% of its revenue from mobile-telephone networks, which connect one phone to another - and the market for its telecom gear has been dead for two years. But Nokia focuses on mobile handsets, which fly off the shelves at a rate of 500,000 a day. The Nokia-Ericsson rivalry has an added intensity; it's hard to overstate the national importance of Ericsson. Founded in 1876, it was for many years...