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...RESIGNED. LI LIMING, head of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention; to take responsibility for the mainland's outbreak of SARS in April. Li quit after a government investigation found that his mismanagement facilitated a mini-outbreak of the respiratory disease in one of his agency's labs, which eventually killed the mother of a graduate student who worked at the lab and who was exposed to the virus...
...Boston Public--claimed that in 1998 he tried to talk her into having public sex with him in various clubs. Four days later, Ryan, who had denied the allegations in legal filings at the time, pulled out of the race. Illinois Republican leaders, who had pressured him to quit, scrambled to find a replacement...
...International medal winners are also guaranteed a lifetime pension equaling almost four times the average Romanian salary. The money, in fact, is so good that it sometimes acts as a disincentive, Belu says. After Romania won the world title in 2001, four of the six gymnasts in his lineup quit, having made enough money to retire from his grueling school. The 53-year-old Belu, who describes himself as an "unsuccessful gymnast," has a friendly disposition but runs a tight ship. The athletes train in two or three groups on different apparatuses, while Belu and Mariana Bitang, his coaching partner...
...Basking in glory as a giant of veterinary science? Well, no. In fact, he's an outcast, having recently been expelled from the Australian Veterinary Association for bringing the profession into disrepute. There's much to suggest that Lonsdale has become a victim of his own obsession. He quit practicing in 1992 to eke out a living researching and promulgating his theories. Ever since, he's hammered a simple message: commercial pet food - on which Australians spend $A1.3 billion a year - is bad for cats and dogs, which should be eating raw, meaty bones. Many vets have wearied...
...misery. Since forming the band Wilco a decade ago, Tweedy has battled depression, panic disorder, painkiller addiction, and migraines so intense that he has interrupted live performances to go backstage and throw up. Last February, while the band was finishing its seventh album, A Ghost Is Born, Tweedy quit taking his migraine medication and went into an emotional free fall. "It was terrifying," he says. "I was having such severe panic I couldn't think. It was all I could do to put one foot in front of the other." After checking himself into rehab for a month, Tweedy went...