Word: palming
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...past two weeks, with two new cases in China's Guangdong province and suspected cases turning up in Manila and Hong Kong, it seems that severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is re-emerging too. The brutal culling of masked palm civets from Guangdong wildlife markets and farms that commenced last week has only exacerbated the sense that matters had been spiraling out of control. Forestry officials incinerated some civets, boiled others to death and drowned still more in disinfectant. Also called a civet cat, the small, furry mammal with big innocent-looking eyes is unrelated to real cats, being more...
...associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, has traveled by rail up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control, who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the SARS coronavirus. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily banning the sale of civets. For Yi this should have been...
...past two weeks, with two new cases in China's Guangdong province and suspected cases turning up in Manila and Hong Kong, it seems that SARS, too, is re-emerging. The brutal culling of masked palm civets from Guangdong wildlife markets and farms that commenced on Jan. 5 has only exacerbated the sense that matters were spiraling out of control. Department of Forestry officials incinerated some civets, boiled others to death and drowned still more in disinfectant. It was as if the Chinese government were offering thousands of sacrificial rodents to ward off the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse...
...Kong (HKU), has been taking the old Kowloon-Canton Railway up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out his fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control (CDC), who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the coronavirus that causes SARS. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily shutting down the wildlife markets and banning the sale...
...before noon." For my dime, he was great after noon or any other time, following the Churchillian example of being able for a few crucial years to get more out of alcohol than it got out of him. I once ran into him at the palatial Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., working on one of his many books. He was dressed in grungy Nikes, rumpled chinos and a fashionable Turnbull & Asser shirt. The complete Moynihan: casual elegance, mindfully engaged in explaining the difficult world beyond. --By Hugh Sidey...