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...campers and staffers came down with the illness. Quarantined campers were carefully screened for any rise in body temperature, and Tamiflu was broadly administered, despite federal recommendations. The pandemic was integrated into normal camp life, just another reality like bug bites and sunburn. "The kids made light of it. It was just the flu," says Howie Salzberg, the camp's director. To help pass the time, quarantined kids were given access to television, DVDs and video games, causing some healthier campers to feel jealous. "They were saying, 'How do I get sick?' " Salzberg says...
...According to a report from the Stasi, the East German secret police, that has recently come to light, on June 18, 1988, at precisely 2:52 p.m., several cars arrived at Checkpoint Charlie on the West Berlin side of the Berlin Wall, and a handful of passengers emerged. One of them was Jackson. (See the last pictures of Michael Jackson...
...exchange, firms are allowed to co-locate, i.e., rent server space within or near the NYSE or another exchange's computer servers to get access to trading statistics faster - just milliseconds faster - than competing investors. This is just one of the techniques that have come to light in recent weeks as the result of a paper by Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzza, co-founders of Themis Trading...
...group of scientists reported that they had recorded enormous water turbulence in a fjord in Canada caused by a swarm of swimming krill. These tiny shrimplike organisms have a predictable up-and-down movement: during the day, they descend several hundred feet in the ocean, where there is less light and fewer predators; as the sun sets, they swim up to the surface to feed. Swarms of krill can be massive - some the size of Rhode Island - so oceanographers have suspected that their movements may cause significant ocean-mixing. But despite numerous attempts, the phenomenon has not been observed since...
...better days between the two countries. In 1994, during Clinton's first term in office, the two sides entered into the Agreed Framework, the first time Pyongyang agreed to abandon its nuclear-weapons program in return for a range of economic benefits, including the construction of two light water nuclear reactors to generate electricity for the impoverished country. In fact, it was pursuit of that agreement that set the precedent for Clinton's current trip: at a moment when it seemed as if a deal might be falling apart, Clinton dispatched former President Jimmy Carter to meet with...