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...Congress were not particularly useful because they did not increase the country's understanding of America's economic problems. The recovery is about to begin. It will be slow. Unemployment will stay high for a long time. It is still a risky period. One or two missteps and the ground the economy could gain would then be lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Bernanke on the Shelf for a Year | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...World Health Organization (WHO) uses a similar on-the-ground surveillance strategy - a text-mining system of media reports, called the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), designed to suss out mentions of unusual illness. And the CDC has a network of physicians who routinely sample and test patients to see what bugs they have and might be circulating in the community. But these systems have many moving parts, relying on state, local and even community health-care workers to both recognize and report anything out of the ordinary. Once a community doctor sees what he thinks might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Google Any Help in Tracking an Epidemic? | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

Veratect's tracking method includes analyzing Internet data (blogs and other sources), maintaining on-the-ground contact with health officials, text-mining news reports and government resources for keywords related to infectious-disease outbreaks and using satellite images of weather patterns to detect and predict the progress of global events like disease and civil unrest. Veratect sources first picked up reports of human respiratory disease at a pig farm in Mexico on April 6; additional reports of a similar illness surfaced on April 16, which is when the company got concerned enough to e-mail officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Google Any Help in Tracking an Epidemic? | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...perfect, but I am keenly aware that the government is trying very hard and people are committed to make this better," Akashi said. "I think [military] action should be limited to self defensive purposes and absolutely necessary humanitarian causes, and if that policy is adhered to on the ground, I don't see any reason for us to re-examine our policy regarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Colombo's P.R. Battle Against the Tamil Tigers | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...small Panama City cobbler shop who says he was finally tired of "receiving nothing in return. At least Martinelli promised to give scholarships and free books to children, and my sons need them." Martinelli has also proposed construction of a $1 billion metro, both under- and above ground, along with a light-rail system. (Read a story on the "red devils" that terrorize the streets of Panama City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama's New President: A Boost for Business | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

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