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...Beyond simple sanitation, the essence of good public health is meticulous data collection?finding and snuffing out the sparks of disease before they become the fire of an epidemic. "You have a heightened need for information," says Dr. Ronald Waldman, an emergency public-health expert at Columbia University who helped set up the WHO's disease surveillance program in Indonesia. Waldman and his team quickly passed out detailed surveillance forms to all health agencies working in Aceh, asking them to report any cases they found of diseases that could turn into epidemics. The morning after the early warning system...
...than CNN and MSNBC, the two largest online news brands in the U.S. Traditional media firms that have migrated to RSS are more circumspect. "We are embracing RSS, but we don't know yet if it makes people come to our site more or less often," says Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing for Guardian Newspapers. Though RSS has been around since the late 1990s, it has only recently gone mainstream as the popularity of blogging has surged. But RSS is not just for bloggers anymore. Big media players are paying attention, too. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal...
...unkempt hair and looks up at the ceiling. He's one of those radiant-child adults, the kind you can imagine as the dreamy fourth-grader he must once have been. We're in his big Arts and Crafts-style house in Berkeley, Calif., with his wife Ayelet Waldman, a former public defender turned crime novelist, and their three children, Sophie, 7; Zeke, 5; and Ida-Rose, 16 months. Chabon and his wife live in a noisy, kid-centered world. Waldman's books are about a former public defender turned stay-at-home mom who cracks cases while the baby...
...Lions are now on pace to post their highest win total in 15 years. OF Matt Buckmiller has been on a season-long tear and already has nine homers. Adam Schwartz and Matt Waldman are the veterans on the pitching staff, but the most promising hurler might be Brian McKitish, who?...
...Waldman acknowledges there are inherent limitations. There is no congregation. There is nothing tactile, nothing to taste or smell. Some rituals must occur in a certain place to have meaning - a cubicle doesn't make it. "Those who try to take 'real religion' and graft it online will indeed create a limp version of the real thing," he says. His opinion is echoed halfway across the world by Muthullah Tayeb, Web coordinator for islamonline.net. "We have to use this service for Muslims to know their religion and for non-Muslims to learn about Islam," he says. "But you cannot just...