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...which is special occasion places. The less good ones will go out of business. You're already seeing a lot of chefs doing really interesting things, understanding that on weeknights, when people aren't celebrating their anniversaries, they have to be more creative. Really good chefs are thinking, "Oh, let's see, how can I make $10 entrees...
...Those same successes - and even the mistakes - may now provide valuable lessons for the global community. "One of the things that let Hong Kong down during SARS was poor infection control in hospitals," Cordingley says. Transmission of the disease proved particularly troublesome at Hong Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital, where one "superspreader" patient infected more than 90 people, including many health workers. "At that time, the number of isolation beds and isolation wards was very limited, so we really didn't have the infrastructural capacity to deal with such a major infectious-disease outbreak," Hong Kong University's Peiris...
...Let's hope that those with an overabundance of "things" will recognize that because of a pervasive sense of greed and entitlement, many have lost all they worked for. Maybe as a nation we will develop a conscience and realize the harm we've done. Mary Jo Lisborg, Fayetteville...
...make enjoying the last few benefits more difficult, of course. Jim, an American communications executive in Paris, began studying French on his company's dime last fall, and in February upped the frequency of lessons from two to four days a week after learning he would be let go in May. "It's pretty hard to stay motivated when you're facing a total blank in two months," he says. But at least now he can add language skills to the résumé he'll be passing around. With reporting by Bruce Crumley / Paris and Stephanie Kirchner / Berlin...
...call about mortality, obviously. I think that's a good thing for us to get out of the way--the earliest you can responsibly deal with the fact that this isn't a dress rehearsal. It's like a 75-, 80-year ride if we're lucky, so let's make the most...