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...flat-screen televisions embedded in the soundproof walls, a PowerPoint slide flashed the human toll of previous epidemic flus: more than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 pandemic; 70,000 "excess" deaths resulted from the Asian flu in 1957; and there were 34,000 deaths after the Hong Kong flu hit in 1968. Next to the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic, the screens showed nothing but a series of question marks. The punctuation was designed to make a larger point. As a senior official in charge of responding to the crisis later told TIME, "You are going...
Some medical professionals question the value of such stringent measures. This late in a pandemic, they say, the spread of H1N1 is inevitable. "They are not effective at all in my opinion," says Dr. Lo Wing-lok, a Hong Kong?based infectious-disease expert. "By picking up these few cases, there isn't any real impact in control of the flu." Hugh Pennington, a microbiologist at the University of Aberdeen, puts it more bluntly: "We are already in a pandemic. There's no containment option now." (See the 5 things you need to know about swine...
...pursuing a counterinsurgency strategy in Helmand province, with running ground battles with the Taliban. The new policy of refraining from air strikes that might kill innocent Afghans is good, but a much broader strategic change is required. Perhaps you should reprint Stewart's article. Jefferson Peck VanderWolk, Hong Kong...
...greenback as a global reserve currency. More recently, Beijing has signaled an intention to slowly establish its own currency, the renminbi, as a dollar alternative in international trade by providing subsidies for Chinese companies to price their exports in renminbi. One economist, Qu Hongbin of HSBC in Hong Kong, goes so far as to say that 40% to 50% of China's overall trade flows could be settled in renminbi by 2012 (though few other economists believe this will happen anywhere near that fast). This willingness to make its positions known publicly and push other governments to see things China...
...Season 1 of Scrubs and the Bakker biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye. This is when I yearn for the guys behind the old Kim's counter. Not that every video-store clerk is a budding Quentin Tarantino, eager to point renters toward some arcane masterpiece from Italy or Hong Kong, but you do miss out on a face-to-face with a knowledgeable cinephile...