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...University of Hong Kong's pathology lab is one of the few places on earth where you can stare a newly accused mass-murder suspect right in the face. Researchers there are using a powerful transmission electron microscope to examine a virus that was unknown to science just a month ago. This minuscule particle of protein-encrusted RNA is almost certainly the microbe that had, by last Saturday, infected more than 2,400 people in 19 countries--including up to 115 in the U.S.--and killed at least 89 since it began its rampage through the human population in China...
...what makes SARS so frightening to scientists and the public is how much is still unknown about it, including where it came from, exactly how it spreads, how long its incubation period lasts (and thus how long a victim has been contagious when symptoms appear) and whether a vaccine will ever be available. Infectious-disease specialists are haunted by the great Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19; it killed fewer than 3% of its victims but infected so many that at least 20 million people died in just 18 months--more than were killed in combat in World...
There was plenty to be mad about. The Crimson lineup—including Hendricks—had been checked by the relatively unknown Dan Basinger, who entered the game with a 6.00 ERA, and its staff had been rocked by a Cornell lineup with the lowest team batting average in the Ivy League...
...race was the Black and White’s first official competition of the season, as its first two regattas were cancelled due to poor weather conditions, leaving Radcliffe as the unknown factor in a competitive field...
...origin of most of this artwork is unknown to Dudley’s current residents, who can only recall the art that they added themselves: a few sugar-cereal boxes and newly painted walls. Rather than adding new work, they take pride in discovering interesting details in the art that already surrounds them already on the walls—such as a photograph of some former residents recreating Raphael’s “School of Athens” or the paper clock adjacent to an actual one, mounted upside-down...