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...Fortunately, say CDC experts, Speaker does not seem extremely contagious; while lab tests for the tuberculosis bacterium are positive, he has not yet produced evidence of the bug in his sputum, and, at last report, was not coughing. Still, erring on the side of caution, the U.S. health agency is offering every passenger on the two international flights taken by Speaker the opportunity to get tested...
...world that without him Britain (and to a lesser extent the E.U.) would not be what it is today. The era of statesman Blair is fast coming to an end. Is he leaving Downing Street as a failure? My answer is a categorical no. History is on his side. Zi Zenn, Singapore...
...parents smile and pinch her cheek; they push her swing and point out birds and butterflies. I watch these strangers with an eye that is both benign and blighted. On the one hand, I wish that my children will be fortunate enough never to be exposed to the darker side of human nature. Yet I know that as a protective parent, I probably will have to sacrifice some of my child's innocence and trust, before someone else does. I really need to tell my 5-year-old that she is not to "play" with strangers, however affectionate they might...
...fighter. His chest is a barrel, his forearms are all muscle. Seeing him at breakfast at the Agura Hotel in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, a place favored by foreign oil executives, you might take him for a security guard protecting his charges. But Pullo works for the other side. "We are not taking hostages because of money," he says. "We are taking hostages to draw world attention to our plight." Nigeria is the oil giant of Africa. It is also, as an American diplomat in the region says, "one big problem...
...Neither side can give in much," says P.R. Chari, research professor at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi, who has been following the deal, "but both have highly skilled negotiators. The solution may lie in some clever language." Clever enough to persuade skeptics on both sides that their concerns have been answered...