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Health officials say it could take weeks to determine the swine flu's origin - and some now suggest it just as easily could have been somewhere outside Mexico, perhaps California. But even if Mexico's first-response report card is mixed, its follow-through since then has won praise from health officials both at the WHO and in developed countries like the U.S. As of Friday, the country had begun setting up reliable testing labs; and of the first 776 suspected cases they'd analyzed (there are about 1,500 total), 358 were confirmed as swine flu, with 16 deaths...
...endeavor was designing the set of “The Space Between,” a complex and multilayered show that demands an equally multi-textured stage, complete with two moving trees and a raised platform on which videos are projected. “The trees function as the origin of human knowledge, like in the story of Eden,” she says. “The physical form itself of the trees is mirrored on the shape of a mushroom cloud. A lot of it came to me really intuitively; it just felt right. It was difficult...
...Commissioner Sanne Magnan, also present at the press conference yesterday, said the woman is recovering and did not have to be hospitalized. According to Magnan, health officials “believe the person had contact with someone who traveled to Mexico.” In Mexico, the country of origin for the current spread of swine flu, 160 people have died of complications from the disease. The first U.S. death from the outbreak occurred in Texas on Monday night when an infant from Mexico City travelling to the U.S. with family died. In response to the spread of the virus...
...expression to all citizens in order to combat racism. But, without even a hint of irony, the conference also resolved that states should “prohibit all organizations based on ideas or theories of superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin, or which attempt to justify or promote national, racial, and religious hatred and discrimination in any form.” According to the framers of the Durban II resolution, the right to freedom of thought and expression is vital—except when such thought promotes a negative sense of national...
...said a long time ago that the reality of identifying and returning to their country of origin the X million of illegals who are here is a fantasy. We need to face up to the reality that Congress and Presidents since the mid-80s have failed to deal with the issue. Now is an opportunity to forge a bipartisan solution. We need to find some way to legalize their presence; not [by] granting them citizenship-we may put them at the end of the line-but not [by] sending them all back...