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...smaller number to venues in Hungary, India and Southeast Asia. NetBooth, a Las Vegas Internet-kiosk company, just purchased 100 Yukis at $500 a pop and will install a handful in the Hard Rock Hotel in May. The company is also negotiating with major airports like O'Hare and LAX to add the juicer over the next few months...
...Inner Mongolia's SARS control office now requires visitors to quarantine themselves for up to two weeks. (That's lax compared with Taiwan, which has slapped outright bans on travelers from the mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada.) China's central government has insisted that the country's internal borders will remain open, but mobs of angry villagers bent on protecting their towns have thrown up ad hoc roadside health checks and blockades. Ming Productions, a film company scheduled to shoot four movies in China over the coming year, has had to postpone much of its slate because of SARS...
...handful of people who have carried the virus to the U.S. from Asia have been superspreaders. And health-care workers in the U.S. have not yet made any of the mistakes that tripped up the Canadians: a patient transferred from an affected hospital to an unaffected one, lax enforcement of isolation orders, hospital workers who may not have been vigilant enough with protective gear...
...shots to control 1,000 angry demonstrators who clashed with police Thursday in the southeast city of Bingol after a powerful earthquake struck the area, killing more than 120. The protesters accused the government of responding inadequately to the quake, which measured 6.4 on the Richter scale. They blamed lax building practices for the deaths of at least 70 children trapped when a four-storey public school dormitory in the village of Celtiksuyu collapsed...
...take it seriously,” he explains. “A lot of casts across the U.S. are more lax on costumes. We try to be as screen accurate as possible...