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...morning rush hour in Baghdad, and the emergency-room staff at Yarmouk Hospital is bracing itself for another grim load. Insurgent groups routinely mount their biggest attacks during the commuter crush: the heavy traffic guarantees them a high death toll, and the ensuing snarl-ups prevent police and military units from giving chase. For medical workers like Dr. Jalal Taha Emad, an emergency-room surgeon, each day begins with a foreboding of the mayhem to come. "When I am on my way to work, I sometimes look at people in the cars around me and wonder how many of them...
...thrive: the Nigerian case load grew from 202 new victims in 2002 to 355 in 2003, then jumped to 792 in 2004. And although vaccinations resumed last summer, by then it was too late to put the genie back in the bottle. Cases of polio genetically consistent with the Nigerian strain had begun popping up, in succession, in more than 10 neighboring countries, including Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire and Sudan. Last November the same virus appeared in Saudi Arabia, two months before the hajj, when 2 million Muslims from around the world descended on Mecca...
Lance Salsgiver’s sacrifice bunt died just fair of the third base line for an infield single, and Zak Farkes followed with a bunt single on his own attempted sacrifice to load the bases...
Responsibility sharing seems to be the name of the game with many of the other reform proposals. Sub-SAC chairs and assistant treasurers will lighten the currently unbearable load on the UC’s top executives. The redefinition of the role of UC vice president as head of both a new UC standing rules and reform committee and a new UC-student group forum is also a positive step in light of the ad hoc responsibilities VPs have held thus far. Requiring the Harvard Concert Commission to report to the CLC is a step we have called...
Lara opted out of misery. By the next semester, she enrolled herself in a special five year Masters program offered through the Music Department—in which a reduced course load (three half credits per semester) gave her more time to pursue private study and perform...