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...through leisure travel. The suddenly germ-phobic nation of Thailand, which made headlines early in the outbreak by requiring visitors to wear masks under pain of a fine or imprisonment, now hands out "health passports" to travelers from SARS-hit regions. The government says tourists will be required to undergo medical checks every three days for the first 10 days of their stay in the country, recording the results in these passports. While it's far from clear how Thailand plans to enforce the system, Deputy Health Permanent Secretary Dr. Thawat Suntharajarn told the Nation newspaper that the passports will...
Limitations on who may participate in sensitive research, established in the wake of Sept. 11 through the USA PATRIOT Act and Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, also requires researchers working on biological agents and toxins to undergo FBI scrutiny and forbids foreign scholars from certain nations—such as Iran, Iraq, Cuba, and North Korea—from participating in research on biological agents...
...innovative play will undergo even more experimentation at the Athena Company’s reading for Arts First.The Athena Company first planned the reading as one workshop within a series which would allow students to work with professionals on play writing, light design and acting. Athena asked Alan Symonds of Radcliffe’s Agassiz Theater to lead a workshop on light design, Svich to lead a workshop about writing and Lisa DiFranza, a director of the Portland Stage Company, to work with students on directing...
...confusion couldn’t mask the glaring reality, and that is this: Hendricks, the junior who is only about as important as oxygen to the Harvard baseball team, will undergo surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and miss six weeks. Hendricks will have a bone chip removed from his knee, and should be healthy for summer ball in Brewster of the Cape Cod League, set to start a week after NCAA Regionals would occur in early June...
Sarah, a senior who asked that her real name not be used, identifies as a woman but considers herself “technically” a male-to-female transsexual. She decided to undergo testosterone-inhibiting hormone treatment in order to transition to her female identity during her sophomore year. She is the only undergraduate transsexual person that she knows of. “I’m not particularly aware that there is a transgender community on campus,” she says...