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...H1N1, not to mention countless other pathogens that have escaped public notice but still keep infectious-disease experts lying awake at night. Thanks to the efforts of the WHO, we've built a remarkable early-detection system for new diseases - one sensitive enough to catch major threats and minor ones - and we should be rational enough to heed its warnings without acting as if the sky were falling...
...Moral policing might sound like a minor quality-of-life issue, but for young Bangaloreans it is symbolic of a broader failure of governance. "You know that the government can do something about it," says Michelle Sebastian, 26, marketing manager at the hotel. But no one has been arrested in Bangalore, and she still feels unsafe going out at night. "We pay taxes. Where's the money going?" Instead of putting more police on the streets, the local government is using the incidents to justify new restrictions on bars and restaurants. The employees at the Ista worry that disrupting local...
...fighting in the tribal areas has swelled that city's Pashtun population, which has in turn raised communal tensions there. While the Taliban is reported to have made some inroads in southern Punjab and has linked up with small militant groups based in the province, it remains a minor presence in those parts of the country where the majority of Pakistanis live. Even in the most generous assessments of their fighting strength, they are very lightly armed and outnumbered by the army by a ratio of more than...
...Sciences Webmail client that when FAS IT announced the creation of a new e-mail service with the domain name @college.harvard.edu in November, he signed up the next day.Since then, Bakker says he has had no problems with the 10-gigabyte mailbox size. And despite one or two minor problems, he calls the @college service “superior” to his old service.But it wasn’t until after he received a message from a technician with a non-Harvard domain name that Bakker realized an outside company was now storing e-mail from Harvard?...
...people and to give each of them distinct personalities and motivations, as opposed to just playing different characters in different costumes,” Ross says. It is not only the actors who have found themselves taking on multiple personalities and duties, however. About a month into production, a minor casting fiasco forced Benowitz to assume the roles of Hippolita and Putana on top of her directorial responsibilities. “It’s been very stressful. But it’s also been really great, because I think I’ve been able to bond with...