SARS
Asian Leaders Tackle SARS BBC News: Leaders meet to co-ordinate efforts to fight SARS, a day after health officials said the virus had peaked everywhere but China. [Rugged Elegance, LLC: SARS In The News]
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Quasimodo
Quasimodo. Ad Altare Dei explains why the first Sunday after Easter is called Quasimodo Sunday, and also why the Hunchback of Notre Dame was named Quasimodo. (Link found at Dappled Things.)... [mirabilis.ca]
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SARS Headlines

WHO scraps Toronto SARS advisory. Globe and Mail Apr 29 2003 12:34PM ET [Moreover - Canada news]

 

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Hackers as "Social Engineers"???
How to outsmart the silver-tongued hacker. "Hackers will try to trick your users into revealing their passwords. They call it "social engineering", we call it a security risk. Here's how to fight it."... [Kevin_Christley] [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
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Act in haste, repent at leisure: Maxim holds true in Internet age

By Richard Bercuson (From Canada Computes)

A mother writes an e-mail diatribe to her son's sports association. Upset over his being released from a team, she criticizes the organization and its process of team selection.

Somewhere in her tome, she commits an unforgivable e-mail sin. In her haste to garrote the program, and probably flummoxed by her own emotions, she claims that her son will wind up so far behind other boys, "he will never ketchup."

"He -- will -- never -- ketchup."

In fact, as if to prove the first ketchup wasn't a mistake, she uses the word twice more. Neither has any reference to hot-dogs. Meanwhile, the email jumps into computers across the city: "the ketchup lady" is born. Her moniker is etched forever in everyone's memory.

You could think the sheer volume of email these days is improving everyone's writing skills, that the ability to present a logical argument with proper syntax has to be better because of practice. If only it were true. [read more]

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SARS Headlines

April 29 SARS Updates. SARS headlines: WHO adds Taiwan to list of "affected" countries. Taiwan reports its first SARS death. The number of SARS cases has increased from 41 to 66 in 4 days. Vietnam was removed from the list. New Zealand reports its first SARS case. India is not making regular reports to WHO. News reports indicate SARS cases in multiple parts of the country, some with local spread in the community. Health Canada suspended routine access to ribavirin. Ribavirin will only be allowed in scientific trials, since there is no good evidence that it helps in SARS. For details about the headline stories only, click "More" below, or you can read the complete 4/29 SARS Updates, Part 1 and Part 2.... [The Agonist]

Canadian delegates face uphill battle with WHO [CBC.CA]

Canada to boost SARS screening procedures at airports. Nando Times Apr 29 2003 4:53AM ET [Moreover - Canada news]

Canada's largest city fights SARS, bad image. Miami Herald Apr 29 2003 2:33AM ET [Moreover - Canada news]

(09:18) First airport SARS checks on flight from Toronto. Jerusalem Post Apr 29 2003 3:41AM ET [Moreover - Canada news]

SARS aid package in works [GAM]

SARS Is the Spark for a Riot in China New York Times: "Thousands of people ransacked a school after word spread that the building would be turned into a ward for the sickened with SARS." [Rugged Elegance, LLC: SARS In The News]

Toronto passengers to undergo SARS exams on arrival at Ben-Gurion. Haaretz Daily Apr 29 2003 0:33AM ET [Moreover - Canada news]

Launches 'Canada Loves Toronto'Campaign. Stockhouse Canada Apr 29 2003 0:16AM ET [Moreover - Canada news]

Two-day international SARS meeting slated in Toronto. INQ7.net Apr 28 2003 7:31PM ET [Moreover - Canada news]

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Quote
Vernon Sanders Law. "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
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WOTD
lacuna: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. lacuna [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
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