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...lucky ones, though the 55-year-old woman lying in her narrow metal bed in the pneumonia ward of Guangzhou's Nanfang Hospital doesn't look it. Ye Qitian's breath comes in ragged gasps, her gray-white hair is bedraggled, and she can only open her right eye halfway as she speaks to visitors. On a rainy afternoon last week, the Chinese housewife says she is recovering from what her doctors have identified as atypical pneumonia, a mysterious disease that has plagued southern China for months and is suspected to have erupted into the outside world in late February...
...mother of three attempts a game smile. "I'm going to be okay," Ye insists. Her condition has improved recently, and Ye has even managed to walk around the ward a few times. But just down the hall is another victim who symbolizes the damage this still dimly understood disease can do. The 43-year-old man has been in the hospital for a month. Now, he lies unconscious, the only sound in his room the hiss and puff of the respirator keeping him alive. A nurse lifts the sheet, revealing a wasted, waxen-yellow body. "He will probably...
...skepticism. President Bush will manipulate the alert level as needed to advance his two key goals: centralizing power in the Executive Branch and rewarding the loyal elite. I've been at alert-level red since December 2000 when the Supreme Court decided that Bush would be President. PAUL R. WARD Redlands, Calif...
...Princeton programs were race specific--and so were considered even shakier legally. The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation of M.I.T. last May after receiving complaints from two groups that are opposed to affirmative action, the California-based American Civil Rights Institute, led by Ward Connerly (who spearheaded the 1996 initiative that banned affirmative action in California), and the Virginia-based Center for Equal Opportunity...
...fundamental need of the people." JSMP's Belo says people are pessimistic about the indictments, and feel the U.N. too has "washed its hands of them." Others are simply confused. "People feel men like this should have to take responsibility for what they did," says Sister Theresa Ward, who has been working with East Timorese since 1995. "They can't understand why these men won't face court." A lifting of poverty is vital, says CAVR Commissioner Isabel Guterres, but everywhere, people ask when justice will come. They are willing to wait, she says, "but something must happen...