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...intimidate individuals exercising free inquiry." They are also protesting in more subtle ways. Signs in the public libraries of Santa Cruz, Calif., warn that "records of the books and other materials you borrow from this library may be obtained by federal agents." At the end of each day, Schaumburg, Ill., library employees delete the names of those who have used computers. At a library in nearby Bridgeview, computer sign-up sheets have been eradicated altogether...
...soldiers during a 1993 Croatian offensive to retake an area seized by the Serb rebels. He vehemently denied the charges and refused to be tried, declaring, "They can carry me out of my house only when I am dead. Not wounded. Dead." He was never tried, because of ill health.died. Peter Stone, 73, award-winning writer of musicals, teleplays and films, including Charade; in New York City. In 1964, Stone won an Oscar for co-writing Father Goose, a World War II comedy starring Cary Grant as "a drunk, disgusting, irascible, misanthropic character"-in Stone's words-who ultimately becomes...
...meters it is the highest point in Yunnan and has never been conquered. For thousands of years Kawa Karpo has been sacred to Tibetan Buddhists, and it is the site of a major annual pilgrimage. Locals are fond of recounting the cautionary tale of one of many ill-fated mountaineering expeditions: a team perished on the ascent, Tibetans believe, because it was blasphemous enough to tread on holy ground...
...SARS' international onset some two months ago, when doctors had only a handful of cases to examine, the mortality rate was thought to be about 5%?scary, but not exactly on the scale of Ebola. What's more, those most at risk were typically the elderly and the chronically ill. But as the cases have piled up, so have the fatalities, including healthier individuals in their late 20s or early 30s. In Vietnam the death rate is around 8%, Singapore at nearly 12% and Toronto 13.5%. In Hong Kong, where baffled health officials held onto the 5% figure like...
...toll may be partly due to regional statistical idiosyncrasies. In Hong Kong, for example, many of the recent fatalities were residents of Amoy Gardens, an apartment complex where at the end of March more than 200 people contracted SARS in a matter of days?producing a logjam of critically ill patients who are now beginning to die, as it takes several weeks for SARS to claim its victims. More unsettling are reports from several laboratories that the coronavirus responsible is mutating almost continuously as it spreads, raising the possibility that certain strains may be more vicious than others...