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With fewer than 300 known SARS deaths so far, the worldwide toll is tiny compared with, say, the 3 million people who died of AIDS last year. But if SARS continues to spread, its numbers could skyrocket. Its overall death rate of about 6% is far lower than that of AIDS, Ebola or malaria, but if enough people catch the illness, even a low rate could cause a catastrophe. The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19 had a death rate of less than 3%, but so many people became infected that it killed more than 20 million people in just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About SARS | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...financial toll, meanwhile, is already catastrophic. Economists predict that China and South Korea could each suffer some $2 billion in SARS-related losses in tourism, retail sales and productivity. Japan and Hong Kong stand to lose more than $1 billion apiece, and Taiwan and Singapore could lose nearly that much. In Canada, meanwhile, J.P. Morgan Securities Canada estimates that Toronto is losing $30 million a day. All told, says WHO, the global cost of SARS is approaching $30 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About SARS | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...Soviet death toll is even more grisly. Nearly 62 million died as the living were sacrificed for the unborn to build a future Marxist utopia. Millions upon millions were shot, starved, tortured and worked to death for the sake of realizing an ideology...

Author: By Richard T. Halvorson, | Title: Predatory Politics | 4/29/2003 | See Source »

...they'll retire after age 65, and 70% of all workers now plan to labor at least part-time after quitting their careers, according to a survey by the nonprofit Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). Three years of slumping stocks and a crummy job market have taken their toll, but eyes have been opened. The future can be good--really--if you focus on the positive aspects of extending your career and make a few smart financial decisions along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Enjoy The Climb | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...call-ups have also taken their toll on the communities of Guard members and reservists. A disproportionate number are police officers or fire fighters - the very people whom cities are counting on for homeland security and as first responders. "We have hollowed out our homeland-security force and deployed them around the country and around the world," says California Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher. The call-ups after 9/11 swept up 15% of the Fargo, N.D., police force. Even small losses can have a big impact on cities and states that are staggering under their worst fiscal crises in generations. With three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond the Call of Duty | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

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