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...Health officials in Taipei insist they are now doing everything by the book. They claim that effective infection-control measures currently in place in hospitals mean that the load of new cases will soon decrease. Most of last week's reported spike, says Taiwan's Center for Disease Control chief Su Yi-jen, were the result of a backlog of 545 patients that had not been processed?meaning the victims were infected before new safety standards were introduced. "We're at the stage when we're about to come down," he says...
Speakers told members of the Metropolitan Highway System Advisory Board—which advises the MTA on land sales—that the loss of the CSX railyard, the only rail connection near Boston’s port, would cause a spike in truck traffic on the Boston area’s already-crowded highways...
...looking at the required theme photos (I believe the suggested themes are “Patriotic Americana” or “Oh no, the drinking fountain is spraying water everywhere”). Good luck in the process and just know that though there likely will be a spike in applicants this year, the Committee on Marital Admissions will give each file the care and attention it deserves...
...narrative edges make it a unique experience. Nicolas Cage plays writer Charlie Kaufman (the real-life writer of the film), who becomes consumed by his assignment to adapt Susan Orlean’s meditative nonfiction novel The Orchid Thief and his own personal eccentricities. Like Kaufman and director Spike Jonze’s previous film Being John Malkovich, several plots overlap and intertwine with surprising at dramatic twists, creating a frustrating, complex film that is infinitely insightful and weirdly moving. Adaptation screens...
...first time in the game—just as Bookman was about to set. Bookman set it straight to Kowell but the Pioneers saved it. When the ball came back over, the pair repeated the same play—this time ending in an authoritative spike down the center, tying the game at a set a piece...