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...giving the conference four bids....Goalie Joe Pike played the entire game for just second time all season, making 12 saves on the evening. The freshman usually shares time with sophomore Evan O’Donnell in goal, but O’Donnell missed the game due to a virus. “That’s the reason we’ve been playing two goalies,” Anderson said. “If something like that happened we’d have a guy ready to go.”...The first of Calvert?...
...main task of computer-network manager Mike Nisbet at Rheem Manufacturing in Montgomery, Ala., is to keep 500 PCs and laptops virus-free and humming. Last year he was haunted by another worry: averting an avalanche. The obsolete or trashed equipment that he and his staff routinely piled in a storage room was in a heap 6 ft. high and growing. "I was afraid someone might get hurt," he says...
...quarantine victims. The U.S. would not seal borders with Canada and Mexico; that would not stop a pandemic and "would have significant negative social, economic and foreign policy consequences," the plan says. The Administration may order the screening of people flying into the U.S., though carriers of the virus who show no symptoms could evade detection...
What can individuals and businesses do? Wash your hands. Clean sinks, railings, keyboards and phones--the virus can survive up to two days on hard surfaces. Reduce face-to-face meetings. Encourage telecommuting as well as flexible work hours. Keep 3 ft. of distance from other people ("spatial separation," in governmentspeak). Oh, and cover your mouth when you cough...
...VIRUS BEATERS Across Nepal 50,000 mothers, most of them illiterate, battled measles by delivering medicine and going door to door to publicize vaccinations at clinics. Result? The number of Nepal's measles-related deaths dropped 90% last year...