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...almost uncontrollable rate, Hong Kong was eventually heralded for its accomplishments in helping to rid the world of SARS and, a few years later, for its quick response to multiple avian flu scares. "I always think back to during the bird flu - some wild bird drops out of the sky and is found in Hong Kong. It finishes up in a lab, being dissected," says WHO's Cordingley. "Anywhere else it would be chucked in the garbage." (See pictures of change in Hong Kong...
...media moguls, Rupert has been the boldest. If Fox or Sky had crashed and burned, he would have burned too. He has an enormously strong constitution." - while head of the media department at Lazard, commenting on Rupert Murdoch's business acumen, (TIME...
...Miami Beach firm allegedly bilked Floridians like Leslie Brown, a 73-year-old Jamaican immigrant and former dockworker. When faced with foreclosure on his Ft. Lauderdale home last fall, he says he paid $2,200 along with other large fees to Keep Your Property, which promised to get his sky-high mortgage interest rate lowered so he could continue making house payments. "I was so happy, I was sure they would take care of it," says Brown, a widower who has since lost his house and is living with a friend. "They didn't do anything, and they took...
...breathy woods, looking out among the trees and then over at one another, with a sigh.At one moment, after six or seven episodes, I catch a glimpse of the sun shining through the window on the trees behind the TV. It seems to be hovering uncertainly in the sky, wavering, granting us a few extra hours but just a few. All at once, the series will be over and it’ll be a late Sunday afternoon in winter, my last in this town, her last in this house.We watch the characters and root for them nervously, hoping that...
...found enough rocks for you.”“Thanks. Do you wanna sit down for a bit?”“OK.”We sat down on a flat patch of grass. She lied down and looked up at the sky. So I did too.“What are you going to miss most about here?”“I don’t know.”I looked over at Katie, and I could see the sunlight gleaming on the side of her face. I wanted...