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Mystery Epidemic SUDAN The war-stricken south faces a new calamity: a disease whose first symptom is that victims (usually children) nod deeply and involuntarily when presented with food. "Nodding disease," as aid groups have dubbed the illness, progresses into seizures and stunted growth. "We consider this 100% fatal," says Ben Parker, spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Sudan. "Few survive into their twenties." Isolated and underdeveloped, the region is no stranger to exotic diseases, including river blindness and sleeping sickness. Missionaries first encountered nodding disease in 1997, but locals say it's been around since...
...Beijing almost certainly gave Tung the nod on his decision: its main concern was that anti-Tung (or anti-Beijing) parties might dominate the September 2004 elections for the Legislative Council, Hong Kong's lawmaking body. Hong Kong has given Beijing an unexpected lesson in Politics...
Jordan, with its long and close ties to the Saddam regime, was a logical choice. But King Abdullah hesitated, sources say, first seeking U.S. approval for any exile deal. Only when he had the nod from Washington did the King offer the sisters his hospitality and protection. The terms of exile may not be in writing--one source described it as a "gentleman's agreement"--but they are nonetheless precise. The sisters are to maintain the lowest possible profile and steer clear of any activity that may be construed as political, according to a Jordanian politician. That includes talking...
...consider Gene Robinson's election invalid, null and void. It is illegal, in that it violates the moral standards the church has established and uses for the evaluation of who can be a bishop or even a priest. And the time of basically giving a wink and a nod to some people is not acceptable. When those 62 bishops voted, at that moment there was a shattering of the Episcopal church as we know it. The structural disengagement of the church has begun. The question is what will it look like? What will it be? It will evolve over...
...around town. He's adamantly refused to take that step and is even less likely to retire himself. The loftiest aspiration of the marchers?speeding up democratic reforms to allow a directly elected Chief Executive and legislature by 2007 at the earliest?requires a big, generous and highly uncharacteristic nod from Beijing. In the Chinese-fire-drill events of two weeks back, it seemed that Beijing, or some leadership faction there, might have been supporting the democracy movement in Hong Kong and undercutting Tung. As days went by, those signals proved wrong, and Beijing has come out sternly in favor...