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Shanghai likes to play by its own rules. But the city's unilateralist approach to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) puzzles a senior hospital administrator from Shanghai's Huangpu district. A month ago, visiting experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said Shanghai would relax its superstringent standards for diagnosing...
Ostensibly, that's good news for a city obsessed with maintaining its bill of good health. "My stocks are going up because Shanghai has escaped SARS," says Xie Lingzhen, as he scans the stock ticker at a local retail brokerage. "Other places in the world have been affected, but our...
Tax-exempt investors tend to be a conservative bunch. So they may be excused for choking on the sudden sickliness of so-called state tobacco bonds. These unusual securities, whose prices have bucked wildly, are a small part of the $1.8 trillion U.S. municipal-bond market. But they've infected...
The ceremony began promptly at 10 a.m. with a procession across Kirkland Street and into the packed theater. Led by the honor guards of five departments accompanied by the Boston Police Gaelic pipes and drums, the 51 graduates of the 10th Municipal Police Officers Class (MPOC) marched in a crisp...
China has a long history of not facing up to its medical problems, but a few doctors are overcoming the fear of losing their jobs to talk about cover-ups. Jiang Yanyong, a retired military doctor who spoke out about inaccurate reporting in one hospital, says he was outraged that...