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...Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), designed to suss out mentions of unusual illness. And the CDC has a network of physicians who routinely sample and test patients to see what bugs they have and might be circulating in the community. But these systems have many moving parts, relying on state, local and even community health-care workers to both recognize and report anything out of the ordinary. Once a community doctor sees what he thinks might be an unusual series of flu cases, for example, he would have to alert his local or state health departments, which would then investigate further...
...classroom and a specimen room, where students can study animal bones, insect specimens and snakes in plastic jars. Founded in 2005, the school is an effort to provide the Masai with income as well as investing in them the importance of conservation. The students learn the habits of the local wildlife, and just as importantly the expectations and behaviors of those that come to see it. Foreign accents are a particular challenge. "The other day, we took a group and they were asking me questions," says Tinka. "I couldn't understand anything they said...
Think of Kyoto and you think of ryokan. But for visitors who want an alternative to the traditional inns, while still retaining a sense of the city's celebrated history, refurbished local machiya hold plenty of promise. Most of these simple wooden merchant homes, dating back to Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912), have been demolished or become dilapidated, but Iori, a conservation company founded by author and Japanologist Alex Kerr, is working to save those that remain. It currently has 10 fully refurbished properties available, ranging from a tiny intimate house sleeping two to a rambling mansion...
...main issue is access. Since the Sri Lankan Army announced on April 20 the "imminent defeat" of the LTTE, both local and international media organizations have been clamoring to get into the combat zone and witness the end of one of the world's longest running conflicts. They have all been denied. The Defense Ministry set up the Media Center for National Security in 2006 specifically to monitor and control coverage of the war, and it has refused to allow journalists into the war zone in northern Sri Lanka since early 2008. That policy has not changed even with...
...your kid Adolf Hitler would not be possible," says Götz, referring to a case that recently made headlines in Germany about a boy from New Jersey named after the Nazi leader. The decision on which names to accept and which to reject is generally left to the local registrar, but that decision can be contested in court. And sometimes the court's ruling can seem rather arbitrary. While the names Stompie, Woodstock and Grammophon have been rejected by German courts in the past, the similarly creative parents of Speedy, Lafayette and Jazz were granted their name of choice...