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...nurse. Instead, the most vivid expression of this outbreak's impact can be found on an eight-year-old girl, Tang Chia-ru, who wears her hair in pigtails and, when given the choice, prefers noodles to rice. Last Friday, she stood behind her father fidgeting with her face mask and staring at the swarm of photographers who surrounded her and at the smiling face of her mother who looked down from a picture frame hanging in a Taipei funeral parlor. Her mother was nurse Chen Ching-chiu, who died in the line of duty...
...Dharma Chakra Centre, one of Sikkim's main religious destinations, will let you expound sagaciously about the turquoise and coral of the main stupa and explain the meaning of the butter-and-rice sculptures to your stupa-fied travel companions. A schedule of special ceremonies, such as the Mahakala mask dances and Tibetan New Year celebrations, will enable you to sound even more erudite...
...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...
...island, he is not so sure. "I can no longer be confident it won't spread farther," he says. "I even had to admit that to my own President." Armed with that information, it may not be too much longer before President Chen, too, is seen wearing a face mask...