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...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...
...reality is that SARS patients are overflowing from Taiyuan's threadbare hospitals. With nearly 40 confirmed cases filling up one quarantine ward at the Shanxi Medical University No. 1 Hospital, another makeshift isolation section had been set up in the back of the hospital. Many of this ward's rooms have as many as five suspected SARS patients squeezed into them, their coughs wafting freely through screens into the corridor. Family members can intermingle with patients, and some relatives are not even wearing masks...
...into this sorry isolation ward that 20-year-old Shanxi student Han was admitted last week, accompanied by his sister and her boyfriend, who came to take care of him. The boyfriend, surnamed Liang, remembers asking a nurse for a mask to wear around the crowded ward, but he was curtly told to go out and buy his own because the hospital had no money to provide extras. More worrisome, Liang had dozed overnight in a chair next to five relatives of a man who was dying of SARS. By last Wednesday, all five family members had come down with...