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...Despite repeated attempts to negotiate a solution to the standoff in the hotbed of Sunni resistance to the Coalition, Tuesday's renewed outbreak of fighting appeared to point to the inevitability of a military showdown. Having gone in hard initially in response to the killing of four American private security operatives, the Marines were pulled back and negotiations opened after the reported killing of hundreds of Iraqi civilians prompted outrage even among Washington's closest allies in Baghdad. Iraqi Governing Council member Adnan Pachachi, who sat alongside First Lady Laura Bush during the State of the Union address, called...
...INDICTED. HIDEAKI ASADA, 41, president of Asada Nosan, a Japanese poultry producer, on charges of covering up a February outbreak of avian influenza at a company farm; in Kyoto. Prosecutors say Asada failed to warn authorities about the deaths of thousands of birds, and the farm allegedly sent some of the surviving chickens to processing plants. Asada faces up to a year in prison. His father, who was Asada Nosan's chairman, and his mother committed suicide after the outbreak was discovered...
...they could also be stopped. "What I learned from my career in public health is the importance of action," he says. But when there are 192 member states to answer to, action is not always easy. WHO's responsibilities range from providing basic health education to responding to the outbreak of unknown diseases. It is Lee's job to direct the agency's resources where they are needed--and can accomplish--the most...
...SARS study also detailed in yesterday’s New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Hong Kong scientists found evidence that airborne transmission contributed to the outbreak of SARS at a Hong Kong housing complex...
...March of this year, barely four months after the outbreak of the Second World War, Professor Morison, his reputation as a leading historian firmly established by texts such as the classic "Maritime History of Massachusetts," published the greatest work of his career. From the tumultuous reception accorded it by critics and public alike, the monumental "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" promises to remain for all posterity the classic biography of Columbus. At all events, it justifies the inscription on one of the Professor's most cherished possessions--a photograph of Franklin Roosevelt which he autographed "To my friend Sam Morison...