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...always wanted to be an astronaut. And write a novel. The Great American Novel, of course. That?...
...BOOKS: A novel look at the nature of sainthood...
...hosts were skeptical of this notoriously impetuous virologist, remembering that it had been Yi, in the early days of the first epidemic, who kept on insisting, incorrectly, that SARS was a novel form of avian influenza. Even after the genetic sequences had arrived from Hong Kong, his mainland peers were unconvinced. "When someone is showing you raw data, you have to be careful," said Dr. Xu Ruiheng, deputy director of the Guangdong CDC. "You have to ask yourself, is this real or is this fabricated?" In turn, Yi asked his Chinese counterparts if they had the sequences for the human...
...animist belief system that dominated the islands of Indonesia long before the arrival of colonizing religions and which still commands a wide following. Since Joseph Conrad's early 20th century tales of the tropical seas, very few foreign, competent storytellers have taken Indonesia for their subject. With this interesting novel, Vatikiotis makes a valuable contribution to the literature of the archipelago...
...engendered among local Guangdong officials might make them less eager to collaborate with the WHO the next time a possible case appears. The importance of maintaining this relationship in Guangdong goes beyond SARS to include other agents that might cross the species barrier?possibly avian influenza or some other novel zoonotic disease. Local officials and the WHO have to maintain a warm dialogue. The world's health depends...