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Guan doesn't lack for scientific chutzpah, but it takes a little self-confidence to rise from Jiangxi Medical College in the heartland of China, where Guan earned his M.D. at age 21, to a corner office in Hong Kong and a position as one of the most important influenza experts in the world. As we inch closer to a possible flu pandemic, Guan keeps gathering his data, doing his part to piece together the puzzle that is the avian flu. "I do this work for the whole world," he says. "For the first time, human beings have the ability...
...million lives a year globally, and Cambodia has one of the highest rates in the world, 508 cases per 100,000 people. The tragedy of TB is that it can be cured with a six-to-eight-month series of daily antibiotics, but interrupted treatment can lead to the rise of multi-drug-resistant TB that is far more difficult and expensive to cure. So serious were fears about the spread of resistant TB that when Sok first began working in the camps during the 1980s, the strategy for treating refugees with TB was simple--don't. Refugees were...
...Although your write-up of Mirza was brief, it was still interesting and informative. The sudden rise of this 18-year-old Muslim on the world's tennis circuit has made her a household name not only in India but in Pakistan as well. In fact, the spectacular success of Mirza in so short a time has made the entire Muslim world proud of her. We all wish her more success in the years to come. Rafat Mahmood Ansari Islamabad...
...Kids can be excused for not anticipating the violence of a Category 2 storm like Wilma. But why weren't adults more vigilant? The Category 5 horror of Andrew occurred just 13 years ago. Yet the condo association at Pedroz's building actually forbids hurricane shutters. High-rise condo windows touted as hurricane-proof exploded during Wilma and rained shards on posh strands like Miami's Brickell Avenue; thousands of Florida Keys residents dismissed orders to evacuate; lines for gasoline and water stretched for miles just a day after the storm because so many folks had failed to stock...
When I. Lewis Libby was a baby, his father saw him propelling himself around his crib, and declared, "He's a scooter!" A nickname was born that presaged Libby's rise to one of the most powerful posts in the White House and foreshadowed the quiet but deft maneuvering for which he earned a reputation. On Friday, Libby stepped down as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney after being indicted on five counts of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice in connection with the investigation into the leak of the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie...