Word: mask
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...exposed. The hospital was quarantined within two days and, 14 days later, shut down entirely?but not before 120 people caught the disease, 20 of whom have since died. "This is the medical equivalent of war," said Chen, who refuses to show fear by wearing a surgical face mask in public...
...that had previously been willing to believe that everything was under control. "When I heard the reports about what happened in NTU I felt the situation was more serious than the government was telling us," says Elaine Chiang, 25, a shop assistant in Taipei. "I haven't taken my mask off since...
...once, the prospect of sitting quietly in your office, decked out in a nice clean mask, holds a charm...
...told by the ISI to "hibernate"?to lie low in case the upcoming dialogue between India and Pakistan fails to yield any progress. Then, says one commander from the Lashkar-e-Toiba, Pakistan's support will resume?covertly, as before. Several of the militants interviewed by Time failed to mask their sense of betrayal by Islamabad. "We feel helpless because we never thought that Pakistan would stop supporting us," says one ex-militant from the Lashkar-e-Toiba who recently gave up his cross-border attacks out of frustration. This indicates that ISI, despite its many denials of helping...
...cramponed boot biting the rock, and my other jammed in a cornice of ice. It was 40 minutes later, when my brain was barely in charge of my body and I felt like I was pushing through wet concrete mixed with anesthesia, that my teammate Chris Morris lowered his mask, wrapped his arms around me and whispered hoarsely: "Big E, I think you're about to stand on top of the world...