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...subtle warp in an otherwise routine day. Dr. Wilina Lim, chief virologist with the Hong Kong Department of Health, was sorting through the usual load of blood and tissue specimens sent to her laboratory from nearby hospitals, typically about 80 a day. On this particular day--Tuesday, May 20, 1997--one specimen came from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon, at the far side of Victoria Harbor, where a three-year-old boy had been admitted with what turned out to be a fatal respiratory illness. Her lab quickly determined that the infectious agent was some type of Influenza...
...country's finance minister, Lim Chang-yuel, announced early Monday that a deal had been reached for an IMF bailout of between $50 and $60 billion, about three times the country's original target. But later in the day, IMF managing director Michel Camdessus threw cold water on that one, noting that nothing is final until both sides ink an agreement. The Wall Street Journal reports that the parties are still at odds over Seoul's gross domestic product growth rate for next year...
...chummy, even familial feel that makes it easy to overlook trivial shortcomings. After intermission, president Juliette Lee '98 and treasurer Shenkiat Lim '98 both spoke ingratiatingly about various farewells. In any other campus orchestra this would have been tedious, but here it afforded the audience pleasure...
Christopher Lim Park '01, who attended a security study break in Mower, agrees, but questions the talks' effectiveness. "I didn't really learn anything new but it was a nice gesture," he says...
...Lim, father of Greta J. Lin '01, spent his morning handing out leaflets on "The Taiwan Question," making him one of many first-year parents for whom Jiang Zemin's speech meant more than a longer walk from the Inn at Harvard...