Experts Say Radical Measures Won’t Stop Swine Flu

Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease. Despite initially declaring success, Beijing now acknowledges its swine flu outbreak is much larger than official numbers show. China’s official count of nearly 70,000 reported illnesses with 53 deaths is dwarfed by estimates of millions of cases with nearly 4,000 deaths in the United States, a nation with about a third of China’s population. China’s Health Minister Chen Zhu defended his country’s aggressive quarantine policy, telling the AP on Wednesday that the measures helped slow the spread of the virus long enough for China to develop a vaccine, which authorities are now scrambling to administer.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/19/health/AP-EU-MED-Swine-Flu-Tough-Measures.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=mongolia&st=cse

China’s Role as Lender Alters Obama’s Visit

When President Obama visits China for the first time on Sunday, he will, in many ways, be assuming the role of profligate spender coming to pay his respects to his banker. That stark fact — China is the largest foreign lender to the United States — has changed the core of the relationship between the United States and the only country with a reasonable chance of challenging its status as the world’s sole superpower. The result: unlike his immediate predecessors, who publicly pushed and prodded China to follow the Western model and become more open politically and economically, Mr. Obama will be spending less time exhorting Beijing and more time reassuring it. But the Chinese were not particularly interested in the public option or universal care for all Americans.  Obama has struck a mollifying note with China. obama is now working on something to fix this major problem.

China executes 9 for role in Xinjiang riots

Reporting from Beijing – China has executed nine people for their participation in the country’s worst ethnic rioting in decades.  The report did not disclose the identity of those executed or the date the sentence was carried out, but it is presumed that most of those executed were Uighurs. Once the dominant ethnic group in China’s Xinjiang region, Uighurs were blamed for the July 5 riots in Urumqi in which 197 people, mostly Han Chinese, were killed and 1,600 injured. In July more riots grew out of what was initially billed as a peaceful demonstration by Uighurs demanding justice over the killing of two Uighur men the previous month in a factory brawl in southeastern China. Protesters degenerated into mob violence, with young men setting fires, looting and hitting people with bricks and sticks after yanking them from cars and buses.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation//la-fg-china-execu-tions10-2009nov10,0,2349081.story

Iran’s Politics Stand in the Way of a Nuclear Deal

This article was based on Cairo.  Iran’s leadership has once again equivocated after agreeing to a deal that would ease its nuclear standoff with the West. Tehran has yet to state publicly why it objects to the deal, which has not publicity announced why this happened. It would ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for additional processing and eventual return as fuel rods for a civilian reactor.  many people like experts in Iran say that nature of the debate in Iran over the proposed nuclear deal suggests that the deep divisions cemented by the summer’s disputed. Which means health problems can happen to others if the nuclear deal doesnt work well. 

This effects me and my community a lot because it shows me how much offer in this community in Iran has to put in its government. The governments problem with the nuclear deal is causing a bad moment to millions and millions of people. And this is putting a lot of pressure to the people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/middleeast/03iran.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast

Yemen’s North Hit by Bloodiest Fighting in Years

The Yemeni Army fought back a major offensive by rebels in the northern city of Sadah early Sunday morning, killing dozens of insurgents, witnesses and Yemeni officials said. The battle appears to have been the boldest rebel attack yet in five weeks. Yemen’s government for five years, and the latest round of fighting, which erupted last month after a yearlong cease-fire, has been the bloodiest so far. The attack started just before dawn on a Sunday, people say that hundreds of Houthi rebels ambushed three military checkpoints and tried to take othe place of the presidential palace in Sadah, the provincial capital. The Sadah conflict has underscored the vulnerability of Yemen. This particular country has goten realy poor and is also facing a separatist movement in the south and a resurgent presence of Al Qaeda.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/world/middleeast//21yemen.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=yemen=cs.

Pressure mounts for Afghan election runoff

        The U.S. urges President Hamid Karzai to accept a U.N.-backed panel’s decision to throw out hundreds of thousands of ballots. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she’s encouraged. He says that he will no longer accept ellection votes. Reporting from Kabul, a United Nations-backed panel Monday tossed out hundreds of thousands of ballots cast inAfghan President Hamid Karzai.  Election observers said the new figures dictated that a runoff election should take place and that there should be a run-off election. Observers want this to happen because the investigators think he did not attain the majority needed for him to win his first election for its round. This  runoff has its challenger. While Abdullah renewed demands for a runoff vote. Many Afghans are not agreeing on this and are saying that there is nothing wrong with voting. The government should really change because this president has got some major PROBLEMS!!

Flooding Kills at Least 31 in Turkey

Flash floods killed at least 31 people in and around Istanbul on Wednesday, the government said, as the area continued to struggle with its heaviest rainfall in 80 years. The water rose very quick and people couldn’t do anything much. After just a few hours of heavy rain, water had covered the city’s low-lying areas,  the primary highways connecting the city center, and the main airport. Drivers who were caught, by the heavy rains told the semiofficial Anatolian News Agency that the fast-rising waters were strong enough that they could push heavy trucks off the road and many other buses on the road. Many people were injured and had to go imidietly to the hospital. A news station showed a video of people running and climbing on top of vehicles and trees in order to escape the rising waters which came in like a second or two. Twenty-six people were killed in central Istanbul, and five people died in an outlying area of the city. Nine of the people were missing around the city.

This affects me and my community because a lot of these floods make huge disasters  around the global world, but this article shows me and tells me that we should always be careful and prepared at many times just incase because you never really know.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/world/europ/10turkey.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=A%20flood%20in%20Turkey%20kills%20at%20least%2030&st=cse

The Tree of Life: Cold Start?

One surprise in the tree was the appearance of bacteria that thrive in high temperatures , near or at the root of the tree. This scientist says this tree has bacteria cells. This basic tree has led to speculation that can originate in very hot environments. In cold temperatures it stay steady. The speculation that life arose in a hot environment have become widely accepted among researchers, and have taken on the status of the origin of life. The bacteria has shown that it wouldn’t adapt to the cold, only the warmth. This kinda goes with what topic we are learning because of how other cells react to different things they are not really used to. This was interesting because the different temperatures can be a different way of reacting and what their response is.

http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/302/the-tree-of-life-cold-start

Iranian Students Stage 2nd Big Protest Since Returning to University Campuses

          Students at one of Iran’s largest universities staged an antigovernment protest on Tuesday, the second big demonstration at a major university in two days. Government efforts say student leaders have not been entirely successful. Over 1,000 students demonstrated at Sharif University in Tehran. They protested a visit by the minister of science and higher education, Kamran Daneshjoo, who helps students higher in their education. All protesters carried colored ballons such as green with ribbons as a symbol of the protest movement since the disputed June 12. This represents when the presidential election started and which banners read ” The University is still alive” acoridding to the website which Kamran D. made to help students.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/middleeast/30iran.html?scp=13&sq=Iran%20articles&st=cse

Yes, We Speak Cupcake – Middle East

       As a younge student tastes a cupcake, it changes his life. When he tasted a vanilla-frosted vanilla cupcake from the Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village in 2004, it changed his life. He quit his marketing job at Unilever and used his savings to enroll in a baking company and culinary management program at the Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan. This happened and he did this because supposably he says the cupckae came to life and some other stuff. But not only did that changed his life. It aslo changed because when he tried his first cupcake, he wanted to make his own shop of  a cupckae beakery. In JUly 2007, he opened his first cupcake company(shop). In Amman, Jordan where he opened Sugar Daddy’s, the shop that brought the cupcake craze to the Middle East and to all their people. Now its called ” Sugar Daddy’s bakery”. Many people from other countries have tried tese deliciouse cupcakes and have heared comments that their cupkaes are the best. He has shown proof in the world that he can make deliciouse cupcakes and that anyone can cook. Now his shop sells yummmy yummmy cheesecakes, brownies, and other yummy bakes that other bakery shops have. He is now glad to have his own bakery shop!!!! Yeah for him. !

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/dining/23cake.html?scp=3&sq=MiddLe%20East&st=cse