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...Cordingley also cautions against underreporting the extent of the spread of the disease, hinting at what happened with China's Ministry of Health, which came under fire for covering up much of the deadly SARS outbreak. "If you have got a problem, you have to speak up," he says. So far WHO has been pleased with communication from Mexico and elsewhere, he says, adding that reporting has been "instantaneous." (See pictures of the return of bird...
...McCargo, the only long-term solution combines firm action against the perpetrators of violence and "substantive autonomy" for the three southernmost provinces. The problem is that, for the rest of this intensely nationalistic country, autonomy is regarded as a back door for separatism, a word whose closest Thai equivalent translates emotively as "tearing apart the land." Such sensitivities make public discussion of bold solutions impossible, laments McCargo. As his book suggests, putting the land back together isn't impossible. Tragically, it isn't imminent either...
...about the state of America, but I have not read anything as concise and as truthful about the state of the nation and its future as "That Was Then ... and This Is Now" [April 6]. Andersen's analogy - likening the U.S. to a substance abuser who must acknowledge his problem and enter rehabilitation - perfectly captured our situation. Anna Riley-Pate, Lexington...
...benzene, creating a 50-mile (80 km) noxious slick. The chemicals oozed toward the sea, and Chinese cities that drank from the Songhua were forced to cut off supplies, leaving millions to fend for themselves. As the slick passed over the border to the Russian city of Khabarovsk, a problem that began in a single Chinese chemical plant suddenly became an international incident between two powerful nations with a history of bad blood...
There have been many words said recently about the state of America, but I have not read anything as concise and as truthful as "The End of Excess." Andersen's analogy - likening the U.S. to a substance abuser who must acknowledge his problem and enter rehabilitation - perfectly captured our situation. Anna Riley-Pate, LEXINGTON...