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...March 28, the day before he died. York Central was then shut down, and more than 3,000 staff members, patients and visitors were isolated. "In hindsight," says Dr. Allison McGeer, a Toronto infectious-disease specialist, the transfer of Mr. D. to a previously uncontaminated hospital "was the worst miss of the early days of the investigation...
...with the music they download. That $9.95 plan at Pressplay buys you unlimited downloads, but you can't move the songs to your portable MP3 player or burn copies of them onto a CD, and you can listen to them only so long as you're a Pressplay subscriber. Miss a payment, and the files lock up. For $8 more a month, Pressplay gives you 10 "portable" downloads that are free of those constraints. But compare that with the roughly infinite number of unrestricted, unconstrained, infinitely copyable downloads that Kazaa offers for roughly nothing, and you can see that Pressplay...
Katzenbach strips back the warm fuzzies to get at the telling details. Bartholomew's husband Eddie works for a food distributor that threatens layoffs for those who miss sales quotas, so he has little incentive to do more than meet them. At KFC, however, Jennifer is judged subjectively by her bosses on her commitment to regional restaurant managers. Higher sales often result, but numbers don't define her. Katzenbach writes, "While money may attract and retain people, it is rarely at the heart of what motivates them to excel...
...North Koreans? They sent a worker bee: Li Gun, deputy director general of their Foreign Ministry's American Affairs Bureau. Officials of that rank can, at best, serve as one-way broadcast machines for prerecorded messages from Pyongyang. Just to make sure the Chinese and Americans didn't miss the snub, Pyongyang also arranged for General Jo Myong Rok, Kim's No. 2, to be in Beijing when Kelly arrived?but unavailable for the talks...
...first evolved, was. The highest priority in any epidemic is to stop transmission to healthy people. In the absence of a specific diagnostic test, vaccine or drug, standard public health precautions are the only tool available—establishing a broad case definition so as not to miss cases, putting in strict protections in hospitals to protect first line medical staff and patients, isolating people suspected of having SARS so that transmission of infection is limited, and quarantining people who have been in contact with known cases who may develop the disease and honest and timely reporting...