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...ride, he arrived in the frigid city to lead an international team of plague fighters. "As [we] entered the town, [we] could sense an air of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Family Journey | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...each other. It did so because one defeated the other in war, occupied it, then wrote and imposed a new constitutional settlement upon it. Japan's acceptance of the post-1945 settlement had much to do with a naked assessment by Japanese leaders of their interests, rather than a sudden passion for all things American. In truth, it is hard to think of any industrial society that in its essentials is less like the U.S. than Japan. Yes, Japan plays baseball. But Japan is a nation with very deep cultural roots and habits - in everything from food, art and style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking an Alliance | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...These are what they call low-frequency, high-intensity incidents," says Daniel B. Kennedy, a forensic consultant and criminal justice professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, referring to Le's murder. "It does not bespeak any sudden wave of violence and homicide at the workplace. It just had a number of unique twists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yale Killing: How Common Is Work Violence? | 9/19/2009 | See Source »

...always very small, and then all of a sudden he just grew to become this tremendously talented athlete,” says Joe Stambene, Iannuzzi’s coach at St. Francis High School...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '09: Balancing Football and Family | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...followed by the decidedly unsubtle “Severin” and “Eat Flesh,” which are the closest “Get Color” comes to the all out sonic violence of their eponymous debut. After that, however, there is a sudden and even forced change of pace. The final tracks, “We Are Water” and “In Violet,” are slower, dirgelike experiments with softness. Both unfortunately fall flat because HEALTH appear completely incapable of coming up with melodic beauty, even of a disturbing...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HEALTH | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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