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...Roger Farrow at the Singapore headquarters of International SOS, a medical-assistance company, agrees. "The traveling public today have two concerns that they didn't have a few years ago. They relate directly to security and health. We've noticed a kind of nervousness in the calls we get now, and the nervousness comes from a lack of information...
...Through what it calls its "alarm centers"-and there are 14 of them in Asia, from Shanghai to Saigon-International SOS acts as the medical-service provider for American Express platinum cardholders, and some Visa cardholders, as well as private and corporate clients. The members-only section of its website attempts to furnish these clients with the information they lack, tracking every virulent pox and security scare in the region. To browse it is to enter a landscape of meningococcal meningitis and dengue fever, of bush wars and (inevitably) the increased risk of terrorism...
...better mood. Now, at last, he can offer his guests something - Arab-style sweetened tea. He has two other visitors, officials from the women's federation. It soon becomes apparent that these ladies have brought the tea with them, probably in response to Nadam's SOS. Having saved his face, they quickly go to work on restoring his pride, telling us over and over again what a good driver, honest man and decent human being he is. Now able to look us on the eye, Nadam beams and orders Senaa to refill our glasses...
Record, Strength of Schedule (SOS) and Ratings Percentage Index (RPI)—These three are primary criteria in all sports. RPI is a weighted average of a team’s record, its opponent’s records, and its opponent’s opponent’s records. SOS is a weighted average of the latter two. An important note—teams with records below .500 are not considered for selection...
...Health-care services were uninterested and unprepared for the special needs of terror victims. The legally trained Rudetzki decided to do something. She began relentlessly lobbying politicians and administrators for legislation adapted to victims of terrorism, a scourge she correctly predicted would affect increasing numbers of people. She founded SOS Attentats with other terror victims in 1986, the same year a bomb on the Champs Elysées killed two and wounded 21. That attack coincided with parliamentary elections, and Rudetzki's crusade for victims suddenly got a fuller hearing. Soon, France had its first law granting special status...