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...thin cotton mask and makeshift welder's goggles, Dr. Li Li guards China's shifting front line against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. The young doctor oversees a new fever ward at the medical clinic in Biange township in central China's largely rural Hebei province, and he's dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the disease. A chronic funding shortage means his clinic lacks even enough surgical masks. Behind him, workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with...
...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...
...whether or not a recovered patient like Ma can be reinfected. But with the disease on the wane in Hong Kong, SARS no longer seems so terrifying to him. While Ma says he'll "still be careful and maintain personal hygiene," he's already given up wearing a surgical mask...