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...might need to renew her prescription. A week later, hospitals in the capital city of Beijing were playing shell games with SARS patients, moving them around the city in ambulances so they wouldn't be discovered by the WHO. Patient numbers were still being underreported (the WHO says there may be 200 cases in Beijing compared with the official government number of 40), investigators were not allowed access to medical records, and whistle-blowers were offering embarrassing accounts of official cover-ups to the foreign press. China's new leadership, led by President Hu Jintao, suddenly found itself entangled...
...released from decades of dust and grime; and, everywhere, sparkling chandeliers copied from the originals where necessary by the Austrian crystal specialist Swarovski. In the Gold Cabinet, the smallest of the staterooms, gilders used a special "Albertina" mix of 23-carat gold plus one-carat silver and copper to renew the extravagant wall paneling to its original sheen, while the Hall of the Muses, a former Habsburg ballroom, has breathtaking newly restored sculptures of Apollo and the Nine Muses. Some of Europe's most acclaimed architects and designers took part in the Albertina reconstruction. To use the palace's original...
...British forces mop up the last remnants of Saddam’s regime, the Middle East is moving towards a historic crossroads. Across the world, fallout from the war in Iraq has increased pressure on America and Britain to push Israel and the Palestinians to renew the peace process. But in order for the negotiations to begin again in earnest, neither side must set impossible preconditions—as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appeared to do in an interview published this past Sunday, when he said that Palestinians must immediately abandon the right of return while Israel need...
...Afghan soldiers had their throats slit at a lonely checkpoint, and a close ally of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was gunned down in southern Afghanistan. A former top Taliban chief, Mullah Dadullah, told the BBC in a phone interview that the warrior clerics were coming out of hiding to renew their war against Karzai and the U.S.-led coalition backing him. Dadullah claimed they are taking orders directly from Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader who has been in hiding since his regime fell in December...
...ambush, three Afghan soldiers had their throats slit at a lonely checkpoint, and an international aid worker was gunned down in Uruzgan province. A former top Taliban chief, Mullah Dadullah, told the BBC in a phone interview that the warrior clerics were coming out of hiding to renew their war against Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and the U.S.-led coalition backing him up. Dadullah claimed the clerics are taking orders directly from Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader who has been in hiding since his regime fell in December 2001. U.S. forces have struck back hard. Following a tip from...