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Still, the WHO has urged all governments to prepare for an imminent pandemic. "The biggest question is, 'How severe will a pandemic be?'" Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO director-general, said in Switzerland. So politicians have to make like they're doing something. Gabon and Ghana have banned the import of pork, even though the flu virus cannot be contracted through eating dead pig. Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe say they are checking arriving passengers at borders and airports and have response plans of varying sophistication should an outbreak occur. In some places, they've gone much further: Authorities...
...fall 2007-2008. “I take every single student as seriously as I do my colleagues,” Ritter says. “When I prepare to give a talk to my colleagues, I obviously prepare very well. I think it’s also very import to prepare very well for teaching.” Charles Liu ’11, a premed who took Chem 30 rather than the more biologically-inclined Chem 17-Chem 27 track, speaks highly of Ritter. “He’s definitely one of the reasons I decided...
...foods that are considered staples come from this period, when Israel could not fund its own factories and needed monetary support from overseas businessmen. “It was a recession state, a highly regulated production economy,” he said adding that Israel was largely unable to import goods so local products were primarily utilized in food production. Couscous, another dish served at the dinner, and pita bread, a popular item in Israel, are both made of wheat, a crop that is abundant in the region. “You were told what to grow...
...sort of thrilled. We're a country that wastes half the food we import. With the recession, people are learning to cook and learning to cook more mindfully, opening their homes to their friends again instead of spending all their private time in public places [like restaurants]. Michelle Obama out there planting a garden on the White House lawn is a wonderful message. For someone like me who's spent my whole life trying to get people to go into the kitchen...
...reflect, Victorian novel-style. Lateef, on the other hand, is a stock character; the spiritually exhausted public servant, who experiences a mid-career crisis of confidence and develops an inappropriate affection for Violet Heller. Somehow it seems like this is supposed to illustrate the novel’s metaphysical import. It just doesn’t really work...