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...there have been no confirmed cases of swine flu among the MIT student population, said Howard Heller, the chief of Internal Medicine at MIT, in an interview this afternoon. According to Heller, as of yesterday MIT has seen one confirmed case of Influenza A--a general species of the flu virus whose many variants include the standard "human flu" as well as the "H1N1 virus" known as swine flu--but it was unlikely that the person diagnosed had contracted swine...
...that hasn't kept the disease from taking it's toll on the MIT medical center, which has seen increased traffic from people thinking they might have the disease...
...meltdown on Wall Street, consumers in the U.S. - Asia's most important customers - slashed their purchases of the toys, blue jeans and flat-panel TV sets churned out by the region's factories. The consequences have been disastrous. Every major economy in the region, from Japan to Singapore, has seen exports contract sharply, usually by eye-popping double-digits. Taiwan registered year-over-year declines of more than 20% for five straight months starting in November. China saw year-over-year declines of more than 17% in January, February and March. Millions of Asians lost their jobs as tens...
...Economists, however, warn that exports are still greatly reduced from levels seen a year ago, so the improving statistics don't necessarily herald a full-scale economic revival. Japan's March exports to the U.S., for example, were less than half the amount sold a year earlier. Société Générale's Maguire says that he is encouraged by the recent figures, but not enough to drastically alter his outlook on Asia's overall growth. "We've definitely seen the low, the worst of the collapse of demand," says Maguire, "but we shouldn...
...Lario, 52, a former B-movie actress, is usually invisible on the public stage, rarely seen by her husband's side and keeping mum on the political issues of the day. But when she does speak up, Lario exercises her First Lady powers in another way: rather than try to bump up her husband's poll numbers with public charm or policy advice, she cuts him down with character attacks that stick in a way Berlusconi's many public critics wish they could match...