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...tenseness and foreboding among the inhabitants," he wrote in his memoirs. "Everywhere there were guarded talks and whispers of fever, blood-spitting and sudden deaths, of corpses abandoned by roadsides and open fields." He introduced the practices of wearing face masks, cremating infected corpses and observing strict quarantine - methods used today to fight pandemics such as SARS and swine flu and even a small outbreak of pneumonic plague in Qinghai province in July. My great-grandfather implemented these measures despite -22?F (-30?C) temperatures, decrepit facilities, traditional preferences for land burials and - what he found most worrisome - the fatalism...
Kleinman said that Eisenberg advocated strict guidelines for faculty members accepting monetary endorsements from pharmaceutical companies because he felt that conflicting interests would be dangerous for the Medical School...
...Following a 45-day public comment period and a vote by the powerful California Energy Commission in November, the first-in-the-nation TV efficiency standards would go into effect in January 2011 and would require televisions sold in California to use 50% less energy by January 2013. Strict-target limits on greenhouse gas emissions for 2020 are propelling policymakers to cut consumption of energy and increase renewable generation. See the Top 10 Green Ideas...
...role in the police force's actions at that time. If Kenya doesn't investigate Ali, Alston believes he should be taken before the International Criminal Court. Ali has vehemently denied Alston's accusations, saying there was no organized campaign of killings and that his police acted in strict accordance with the law. Iteere has kept silent on the issue of abuses but says he will reduce crime...
...government worthy of the name nearly two decades ago, in 1991. For most of the 1990s, like Afghanistan at the time, the country was torn apart by rival warlords. Like Afghanistan too, out of that chaos arose an army of radical Islamist warriors who were determined to bring strict religious law and order to the country, but who were also open to funding from and cooperation with al-Qaeda. The first shots in what became known as the war on terror were fired by Somalia-based militants when they blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam...