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This is the hospital ward China's Ministry of Health doesn't want you to see. Here in the infectious-diseases section of Beijing's You'an Hospital, dozens and dozens of patients with SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) are crammed into tiny rooms. "Every single one of us in this building is a SARS patient," says a nurse named Zhang, who worked at the People's Liberation Army Hospital No. 301 until 11 days ago when she was diagnosed with the disease and admitted to You'an. "There are at least 100 SARS patients here, if not several hundred...
...TIME reporter continued through the ward, another nurse who wouldn't give her name stopped him and explained, "Look, I'm not pushing you away. I do this for your own good. It's too dangerous here. Even we who work here don't know when we'll get it. Don't believe the government. They never tell you the truth. They say it's a deadly disease with 4% mortality? Are you kidding me? The death rate is at least 25%. In this hospital alone, there are more than 10 patients dead already...
...guess that means I don't exist," jokes a middle-aged English man who has been confined to the 14th-floor isolation ward for a week. He connects with the outside world by cell phone. "The care here is good, but I must admit I'm feeling a little cut off from the real world," he says between dry coughs. China's persistent obfuscation contributed to the U.S. issuing a travel advisory warning against nonessential trips to China. And in Hong Kong, the government ordered family members of confirmed patients to stay in home quarantine. Travelers wishing to fly from...
...ubiquitous "Got Milk?" ads remind us that we need calcium for strong bones and teeth from the time we are toddlers through our senior years. But researchers are learning that diets rich in calcium also provide another benefit: they help ward off obesity. The latest findings, presented last week at a meeting of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, come from a study of 321 girls, ages 9 to 14, conducted by Rachel Novotny and colleagues at the University of Hawaii. The girls who consumed more calcium weighed less and had less abdominal...
...major breweries, much of this process today is automated. Most of what those kura produce is sake of regular grade, often sold in paper cartons and best served hot. Its low quality may account for falling sales. Some breweries, including many in Kobe's Nada ward--sake central for centuries because of its pure mountain-spring water--are trying to reach younger drinkers with products like low-alcohol, low-calorie sake, while also appealing to Japanese nostalgia by encouraging visits. Hakutsuru, the No. 1 brewery, has preserved its 1743 kura as a museum to showcase ancient sakemaking methods...