Word: toronto
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...While SARS initially appeared to be centered in Asia, concern is growing on the other side of the world. In Toronto, where 140 SARS cases and 15 deaths have been reported, health officials fear the virus may have spread beyond the walls of the city's hospitals, where it was originally contained. As a result, Toronto has been added to the WHO's travel advisory bulletin. In Beijing, where 750 cases have been confirmed, anxious residents are storming supermarkets to stock up on food and water, and lining up at train stations loaded down with luggage, hoping to escape...
...SARS spreading through Canada? According to WHO officials, the threat of SARS in Canada, and particularly Toronto, appears to be growing, given that some suspected new cases have appeared in Canadians who, unlike everyone previously diagnosed with SARS, have not traveled to Asia. The global health group has issued a travel advisory, urging " persons planning to travel [to Toronto] to consider postponing all but essential travel." Meanwhile, Toronto city officials are furious with the announcement, claiming the WHO's decree is premature, and arguing the resultant decline in tourist and business traffic could send the city into a financial tailspin...
...recent SARS outbreaks. As a recent follow-up to the moratorium, University officials have announced that students taking courses in affected areas will not receive Harvard credit, and may not be able to use University grant money to fund travel and research expenses in East Asia or Toronto in the coming months. While the University should play a role in discouraging students from potentially dangerous travel plans, by eliminating course credit from certain locales, Harvard officials have overstepped their bounds...
...that those returning from SARS-infected areas do not pose a danger to their fellow students. Common sense dictates that students should put off optional plans of study that would bring them to SARS-affected nations. But if a student deems it necessary to travel to East Asia or Toronto for academic reasons—and is willing to accept the risks—it is not the University’s job to forbid their travel...
...real-life wife, Arsinée Khanjian), an art historian and adviser on the fictional film; Celia (Marie Josée Croze), Raffi's stepsister, who blames Ani for their "freedom-fighter" father's death; and David (Christopher Plummer), the customs inspector who interrogates Raffi on his return to Toronto. The characters talk endlessly. "The opposite of denial is the tendency to talk too much," says Egoyan. In some of the film's key scenes Raffi and David verbally spar in a darkened room over the contents of Raffi's cans, labeled Exposed Film. Will shining a light inside...