SARS Headlines

Canada hosts SARS summit as 2 more deaths reported. INQ7.net Apr 30 2003 8:31PM ET [Moreover - Canada news]

Legislature unanimously passes SARS bill to aid Ontario workers, businesses. CNEWS Apr 30 2003 7:55PM ET [Moreover - Canada news]

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Standing Guard against SARS

How a big factory in Southern China is keeping the disease out.

As the red-bereted security guard pokes a thermometer into my ear, it occurs to me that I've never had to clear a pre-interview hurdle remotely like this one. I'm in the lobby of one of the world's largest factories, Flextronics International Ltd.'s flagship southern China facility, a place that has emerged as yet another front in the war against severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). If I'm running a fever, I'm going to be sent to the factory clinic -- or sent packing.

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SARS; or "The world is ending, film at 11". Are we (which means, of course, the media) overreacting to SARS? Is the danger a media creation? Now of course, SARS is a problem for some people. Hundreds of people have died, mainly in rural China, and about 5,000 worldwide have become sick from it. But is that something for the average person to worry about? No, says on researcher. Despite the proliferation of SARS stories in the US media in recent weeks, about 40 people in this country are suspected of having come down with the... [Bettnet.com - Musings From Domenico Bettinelli Jr.]
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Maintaining Balance Between Work and Family

Author: Steve Marr

Trying to balance work and family is a major source of stress for most people, especially when both parents work. Some stress is inevitable, but the rest can be managed successfully if you will observe a few basic guidelines.

First, recognize that the pressure is real. Trying to ignore the stresses and strains of life only makes matters worse. Facing the pressure head-on, and developing a workable plan, is the best way move forward. [read article] [Business Proverbs]

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New SARS RSS Feed Great SARS RSS Feed from our friends at BioSpace. -Tim [Rugged Elegance, LLC: SARS In The News]
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The Webby Awards
2003 Nominees for Spirituality.... [++ relapsed catholic ++ religion + news + media + culture]
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SARS Headlines

Grid Computing Spreads to SARS Wired News: "As doctors scramble to contain the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, researchers are hunting for a treatment. The latest step is a SETI@home-like distributed computing project to test the effectiveness of potential drugs against the virus." By Kristen Philipkoski. [Rugged Elegance, LLC: SARS In The News]

SARS postpones Computex Taipei. The trade show in Taiwan, which had been expected to draw more than 20,000 foreign visitors, has been put off until the second half of the year. [CNET News.com]

April 30 SARS Update. SARS Headlines:Laurie Garrett writes in Newsday.com: AIDS patients, in Guangdong, appear to resist SARS illness. Toronto Star: Bowing to political pressure, WHO removes the travel advisory against Toronto, but keeps Toronto on list of "affected" countries. JoongangDaily: The South Korean government will treat test positives as confirmation of SARS. The government refuses to report its SARS cases to the World Health Organization, to avoid getting “listed”. The leaders of the "ASEAN Plus Three" nations met April 29 and agreed on a joint approach to SARS. Leaders from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, The Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam agreed on the way forward. ABC News: Director of the US CDC, Dr. Julie Gerberding told a senate committee, "There is very little suggestion right now that it is going to go away any time soon in China." New Zealand has its first probable SARS case. Russia has a suspected case on Sakhalin Island. Russia forbids tourist travel, to China. Read the complete April 30 SARS Update.... [The Agonist]SMS then Jail.

13 people in Guangdong province, southern China, have been arrested for spreading rumours about the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic through text messages using mobile phones. The Wen Wei Po daily newspaper reported that public security bureau officials said that on April 26 alone,some 2.13 million such messages were sent, claiming that SARS cases in China reached 10,000.Each recipient was told to resend the messages to another 10 people.
13 held over SARS rumours

[Smart Mobs]

Beijing Issues New SARS Warning BBC News: "The mayor of the Chinese capital says hospitals are unable to cope with the city's "severe" SARS outbreak." [Rugged Elegance, LLC: SARS In The News]

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Aristotle. "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
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WOTD

The Word of the Day for April 30 is:

variegated • VAIR-ee-uh-gay-tid  • adjective
*1 : having discrete markings of different colors
2 : varied

Example sentence:
The variegated flower petals glistened in the puddle—brilliant splotches and splashes of color shining on the dark, wet sidewalk.

Did you know?
"Variegated" has been adding color to our language since the mid-17th century. It has been used in botany to describe the presence of two or more colors in the leaves, petals, or other parts of plants, and it also appears in the names of some animals ("variegated cutworm"). It can be used by the general speaker to refer to anything marked with different colors ("a variegated silk robe") or to things that are simply various and diverse ("a variegated collection"). "Variegated" has a variety of relatives in English—it's ultimately derived from the Latin root "varius," meaning "varied," which also gave us "vary," "various," and "variety."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

[Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day]
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