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...Emergency rooms often perform this function in an ad hoc way; the emergence of West Nile virus in New York City was first detected by a hospital physician who was suspicious of two cases of encephalitis among her patients and prodded the city health department to launch an investigation. The CDC relies on a national network of sentinel doctors to do this kind of monitoring during flu season and uses a similar system of local labs and DNA fingerprinting to track food-borne illnesses. Cities and states have physician-alert programs that do the same...
...Summers will decide whether or not to take the necessary steps to ensure that Harvard’s low-wage service workers, overwhelmingly people of color and immigrants, will never be left to work for poverty wages in the future. Just days before Harvard’s janitors officially launch contract negotiations, Summers will have the opportunity to do King’s memory proud. A real commitment to the dignity of the many faces of color who allow Harvard to function will, no doubt, serve as a most welcome step...
...also quite conceivable that a number of the Pakistani militants trained to spread terror across the border will respond to Musharraf's crackdown by launching a campaign of domestic terrorism against Musharraf's own regime and its secularist supporters. Or, if they were to take their cue from the radical Islamist opposition to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, they might refrain from directly targeting the Pakistani authorities but instead launch dramatic terror strikes inside India, hoping to provoke a full-blown...
...fears, however, were overblown. For the most part, Europeans greeted the launch with good humor and even civic-mindedness. The debut of more than 10 billion new bank notes, legal tender from Lisbon to Helsinki and from Dublin to Athens, has given 300 million Europeans their first true experience of union. (Britain, the most significant holdout, is keeping the pound for now.) An Austrian who stood in a long bank queue to get her first walletful of euros could go home and see Spaniards doing the same thing on TV. The much photographed lines outside some banks were strictly voluntary...
...most part, though, Europeans greeted the launch with good humor and even a measure of civic-mindedness. A national French bank tellers' strike scheduled for Jan. 2 - widely viewed even in union-friendly France as an opportunistic shakedown - fizzled out after almost everyone showed up for work. And those much-photographed queues outside some banks were strictly voluntary displays of euro- enthusiasm, since in most countries the old currencies are still good for at least another month. The Creditanstalt bank in Vienna opened for five hours on New Year's Day and found itself swamped with customers trading in their...