Not really all that opinionated.

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SARS News
Russia, Citing First SARS Case, Curtails Travel to China New York Times by Michael Wines:

Moscow -- Russia halted some airline flights to and from China and crimped entries along the 2,624-mile Chinese border today after the authorities said they had tentatively logged the nation's first known case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS.

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Frost & Sullivan Release: The Mask Of SARS. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new disease that have inflicted thousands of people worldwide, particularly in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Canada. Symptoms of SARS include a fever more than 100.4 degrees F (38.0 degrees C), respiratory discomfort, dry cough, and body aches. SARS is usually spread by airborne droplets from the sneeze or cough of a person with SARS. Other potential ways of SARS spreading may be via touching infectious droplets and not washing their hands afterward. Some scientist are still trying to figure out what caused the SARS outbreak, and exactly how the disease is being spread. The vast majority of SARS cases are healthcare workers and family members. However, the number of cases continues to increase beyond hospital settings. Epidemiologists are studying whether SARS could be spread by some environmental means as in the case of one apartment complex in Hong Kong. Over 240 people in that complex were infected with SARS, indicating that SARS may be transmitted through non-personal contact. [BioSpace]

May 9 SARS Update. Finland: Finland, with 18 'suspected' SARS cases, had a case that worsened this week, becoming that country's first 'probable' SARS case. SARS Genome looks stable: The NY Times, May 9, reports on an article soon to be published in the medical journal, The Lancet. Dr. Edison Liu and others reviewed the genetic sequence of 9 samples of the SARS coronavirus, obtained from seriously ill patients in different countries. The genomes were quite similar, with almost all of the 29,000+ nucleotides being the same, comparing the RNA from the various viruses. China's chief of SARS control supports traditional Chinese Medicine: China Daily, May 9: "Vice-Premier and Health Minister Wu Yi Thursday highlighted the role of traditional Chinese medicine in treating Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) patients and called for further recognition of the scientific value of the traditional therapy in the fight against the disease." Times Online, May 9: Chinese hospital authorities in Hebei province are putting on a fraudulent show, for the visiting WHO expert team [The Agonist]

Toronto business down 15% on outbreak: survey [The Globe And Mail: National]

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Air Accident in Congo

This sounds like the premise for a disaster movie.

Passengers sucked out of plane, 129 dead [CBC.CA]

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Little Known Quotes from Famous Mothers

PAUL REVERE'S MOTHER
"I don't care where you're going young man, midnight is past your curfew!"

MONA LISA'S MOTHER
"After all the money we spent on braces, that's the biggest smile you've got?"

HUMPTY DUMPTY'S MOTHER
"If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times, 'don't sit on the wall.' But would you listen to me? Noooo!"

MICHELANGELO'S MOTHER
"Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that stuff off the ceiling?"

NAPOLEON'S MOTHER
"All right, if you aren't hiding your report card in there, take your hand out and prove it!"

CUSTER'S MOTHER
"Now, remember what I told you -- don't go biting off more than you can chew!"

BATMAN'S MOTHER
"It's a nice car, Bruce, but do you realize how much the insurance is going to be?"

GOLDILOCKS' MOTHER
"I've got a bill here for a broken chair from the Bear family. You know anything about this?"

LITTLE MISS MUFFET'S MOTHER
"Well, all I've got to say is if you don't get off your tuffet and start cleaning your room, there's going to be a lot more spiders around here!"

JONAH'S MOTHER
"That's a nice story, but where have you really been for the last three days."

SUPERMAN'S MOTHER
"Clark, your father and I have discussed it, and we've decided you can have your own telephone line.Now will you quit spending so much time in those phone booths?"

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Bible in a Year
Romans 12-13
Proverbs 22:1-16
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Quote
Charles Dickens. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
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WOTD
lexicon: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. lexicon [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
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