Word: guangdong
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...hate the kids who come trick-or-treating to our house, some of whom might almost be considered cute, even if most of the ones over 8 are running a protection racket. And I don't hate the candymakers, the greeting-card printers or the manufacturers - somewhere in Guangdong Province, China, I guess - who turn out all those disgusting plastic decorations that are beginning to disfigure suburbia and who, together, have turned an innocent night of excitement for children into something run by and for adults. Those in the Halloween industry are simply behaving as good capitalists should, following...
...time around have acquired quarantine facilities and equipment needed to protect hospital workers. For example, in Hong Kong, where hospitals were initially overwhelmed by last spring's SARS outbreak, more than 500 isolation rooms capable of housing some 1,300 SARS patients will be completed by November. China's Guangdong province, ground zero for the virus, is spending more than $180 million to rebuild the provincial Center for Disease Control and add isolation rooms to hospitals. Properly prepared health facilities are key in keeping a minor outbreak from becoming a big one?SARS spread most rapidly among medical workers. "Without...
...fever and a dry cough but lacked the telltale pneumonia of most cases. Even the best early diagnostic tests are slow and at most 80% reliable. The good news is that China, which tried to hide the extent of its outbreak last spring, has a new attitude. Guangdong has begun regularly sharing its infectious disease data with Hong Kong, and the WHO is helping to set up a national SARS surveillance system that will streamline medical reporting...
...away from home before, and I had no idea if I could make it as an athlete." But his body kept growing, and so did his determination to make the best of a difficult situation. Yi still preferred watching cartoons to NBA games, but by the time he joined Guangdong's professional Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) team last year, he was an astonishing 6 ft. 11 in.--and he could leap and touch a spot more than 11 ft. 6 in. off the ground. (The basketball rim is 10 feet high.) As Yi mastered new skills--the midrange jumper...
...season, most of it riding the bench, in the CBA. But his final regular-season game last spring offered a tantalizing glimpse of the future. With the game heading into overtime, Yi came off the bench to score 13 points in five minutes to seal the victory--and secure Guangdong's place atop the standings. Two weeks later, when Guangdong played the army team for the CBA championship, the stands were crawling with sports agents and shoe-company representatives, all fixated on the big kid on the bench. "It's partly the Yao Ming effect," said a shoe-company executive...