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...Public alarm at yet another outbreak of the killer bird flu virus is an example of a city disappointed by its leadership. The virus was supposed to have been wiped out after a 1997 mass slaughter of chickens. That claim has been disproved by two major outbreaks since then. With a third underway, the government's response only further undermined its credibility. "We can see that our surveillance system is working well," Ingrid Yeung, the acting deputy secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, told legislators last week-without explaining how mere detection would result in complete eradication...
Second-hand smoke is a killer. It contains over 40 different known carcinogens and has been shown by the Association for Research on Cancer to be a direct cause of lung cancer in non-smokers. Exposure to second-hand smoke in the workplace increases one’s risk of developing lung cancer by 16 to 19 percent, and estimates by the National Cancer Institute indicate that in America over twice as many people die every year as a result of second-hand smoke as do from AIDS...
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Mann arrived on Broadway with Execution of Justice, set in a polarized San Francisco in 1978. The show details the assassinations of the city’s mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk, and the riots that followed after the killer was sentenced to only five years in prison...
...want a sure-fire conversation killer in Shanghai, mention the 2008 Olympics being hosted by Beijing. Shanghai residents are so sick of hearing about their northern neighbor's success that local officials had to be reminded to put up signs congratulating Beijing after it nabbed the Games last year. Now, Shanghai has a marquee event of its own to celebrate. Last week, the city won the right to host the 2010 World Expo?adding another bauble to its gaudy and growing list of tourist attractions. Already under construction is the world's first commercial magnetically-levitated train line. Shanghai also...