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...acknowledging some missteps and perhaps removing some culpable officials, they will likely point to the Harbin incident as further evidence of their newfound willingness to deal openly with challenges such as avian flu. Unfortunately, it is unlikely Beijing will recognize the Harbin disaster for what it really is: a wake-up call signaling that without real reform, they risk hundreds of millions of desperately ill citizens, greater social unrest and, perhaps, the end of the Chinese economic miracle...
...REILLY: I guess I'm an optimist too because, on the one hand, many of the technological innovations of the past few decades now are in the payoff stage. On the other, even a serious disruption-- global warming, a pandemic--could serve as a wake-up call, harnessing our ingenuity to make things better...
...almost as many penalty minutes doled out (12) as shots on net (13), the Tigers finally got on the scoreboard with a man-advantage tally—its first in eight attempts—with just over seven minutes remaining in the middle frame. That goal was a wake-up call, and given a power-play opportunity of its own seconds later, Harvard evened the score, thanks to Raimondi.“We just all took a deep breath and realized the penalties were killing us,” Raimondi said. “We played the entire second period...
...there is a silver lining to katrina and the botched efforts to help its victims, it is that we Americans have got our wake-up call. We elected an insulated, not too astute President who is surrounded by yes-men and -women. His inflexibility cripples him when events beyond his control demand a new direction. Betty Hatwig El Dorado Hills, California...
...Israel as the most sympathetic of U.S. Presidents. For the first time, Clinton characterized the Jewish settlements as an "obstacle to peace," using terminology from the Reagan and Bush years that his Administration had dropped. For Netanyahu, says a senior State Department official, "it was a very strong wake-up call." Concerned that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would peter out, or that violence would again erupt, Clinton dispatched Dennis Ross, the State Department's special Middle East coordinator, to Jerusalem with a mission to hammer away until Hebron was done...