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...Even in hard-hit Hong Kong, life is gradually returning to normal. Masks are no longer omnipresent, once vacant cinemas are filling up again?and the alleys are once more strewn with garbage. SARS-weary residents are encouraged by the slowing infection rate. "I have started going to karaoke again," says Julie Ong, a 24-year-old auditor who spent the peak of the territory's epidemic in self-imposed hermitage. "I just decided that I couldn't live like this forever...
Theme cruises--which combine the usual oceangoing amenities with an opportunity to indulge in a hobby, listen to lectures, interact with experts, meet travelers with similar interests or just rub shoulders with celebrities or sports heroes--are one of the few growth markets in the hard-hit travel industry, expanding about 20% a year. "We're seeing an increased demand in specialty trips from baby boomers," says Andrew Poulton, director of strategic marketing for Radisson Seven Seas Cruises. "They want more out of a cruise than just eating...
...protect myself from SARS? If you live in a country (i.e. the U.S.) where no concentrated outbreak has been documented, you don't need to worry too much about contracting SARS. People who live in hard-hit areas like Hong Kong, which is adjacent to Guangdong, should follow local health officials' instructions and keep their distance from people known to be infected. Travelers should note that WHO now recommends that travel to Hong Kong or the Guangdong Province, as well as Beijing and Shanxi Province, China, and Toronto be postponed, unless the travel is "essential...
...masks. Airlines have canceled flights in and out of China and Southeast Asia, and financial losses from reductions in tourism, retail spending and other business activity could reach billions of dollars. Schools were closed across affected regions, and last week authorities in Hong Kong forced 240 people from the hard-hit Amoy Gardens apartment complex into quarantine camps outside the city. In Canada, hospitals have closed to control the disease's spread, and health officials everywhere are looking hard at anyone who flies in from Asia and quarantining those with symptoms of infection--a fever...
Farkes led off the Harvard half of the inning with a fly ball to right field that got hung up in a strong wind and fell in for a double. Lentz followed with a hard-hit ball to second that passed the lunge of Big Red second baseman Seth Gordon. It was a rough stretch for Gordon, who struck out to the end the top half of the seventh, failing to drive in Finch from second. Farkes raced home from second to tie the game...