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Like many southerners who move away, Wesley Clark of Arkansas and John Edwards of North Carolina now wear their Southernness gaudily, as though they must prove its authenticity. For them, the South seems not so much a home as a talisman to ward off Northeasterners and liberals, Dukakises and--they hope--Kerrys...
...Maine, is a smuggler of sorts. At 77, the retired registered nurse doesn't look the part. She still does volunteer work--administering flu shots, cutting toenails and organizing blood drives--at the Southern Maine Medical Center, where she worked for more than four decades, first in the maternity ward and later in the operating room...
...Belichick's aggressive management style pays dividends. "The players say we're not on a 14-game winning streak," says Pats owner Robert Kraft. "We're on 14 one-game winning streaks. That's a reflection of Bill's attention to the task at hand." Wide receiver Dedric Ward calls Belichick "the wizard, a guy you never see but know he always has a hand in what's going on." Says a colleague: "He's thinking about the next game plan as soon as he's on the plane. Everyone else has to take a nap, or is all about...
...recovery. A few crumbled buildings have been rebuilt and refitted with corrugated-iron roofs. Merchants have opened new stores. The hospital may not have reliable water, electricity or supplies - "They don't have soap to wash the floor, so you work in the dirt in a surgical ward," says Filippo De Pasquale, an Italian volunteer doctor - but at least it has been dug out from the bush. Should negotiations between the rebels and the Sudanese government end the two-decades-long civil war, it's these types of basic necessities - roofs, shops, trees - that the southern Sudanese will gain...
...Hanoi-French Hospital in late February and March of 2003, he believed he might be facing the front end of an avian-flu epidemic. Dr. Olivier Cattin, the medical coordinator at the hospital, had alerted Urbani and told him the Chinese-American patient currently in the emergency ward suffering from high fever, severe muscular pains and labored breathing had possibly come down with the disease. Virologists in Hong Kong soon determined that the agent was a novel coronavirus, not a mutant flu. But Urbani, who would die of SARS on March 29, went to his grave suspecting the world...