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...average day at his Clinique Bon Saveur in Haiti involves treating desperately sick adults and children, “most of them TB or HIV patients with a bit of malaria thrown in,” he says. In the brief moments between patients, Farmer will confer with political leaders about grave issues of public health...
...Canadians weren't battered enough by microbial menaces after dealing with SARS, along comes mad cow. A routine inspection of a slaughtered Black Angus in Alberta revealed it had been infected with the disease. Inspectors have quarantined 16 sites across Canada as they explore how the cow got sick. Canada's beef industry is reeling--but it could get worse. Officials are checking whether cows on at least three farms in British Columbia may have had access to chicken feed that contained protein from the contaminated cow, thus spreading the disease more widely than thought. --By Alice Park
...tragedy. In the rest of the world, films are often a reflection of those troubles, a mirror into the dark soul of humanity. So each May, 35,000 movie folk convene in a Riviera paradise, where they place a stethoscope to mankind's heart and announce, this guy is sick...
...Oregon high school erupts into massacre, Columbine-style. In Lars von Trier's Dogville, which had all the early buzz but left without any prizes, a beautiful stranger (Nicole Kidman) takes a load of abuse in a Colorado town, then, like an Old Testament God in an I'm-sick-of-Sodom mood, has everyone gunned down. Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a S?o Paulo jail, and Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unexplained disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf...
...generalize a bit?and what are critics in Cannes for, other than to see dozens of movies and lap up the free vittles??the artier directors from Europe and the Americas are so sick of current affairs that they want to blow everything up. The Asians on the other hand, who have lived with catastrophe for so long it's like a noisy neighbor, see each day as a little test that must be passed to get to tomorrow. (It's the difference between two views of North Korea: the Bush Administration's and South Korea...