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Good News? Graph of the SARS Epidemic

"The number of reported cases of SARS in the world is doubling every 14 days. This is implied by the slope of the blue curve, using the data available on April 12, 2003"
Yudel's Line: A couple of days ago, the reported doubling rate was every 12 days. We may be looking at the peak of the outbreak.... and not at a global epidemic. We can hope.

Buddha Statues Redux (Eschaton)

It's hard to quite get ones head around whatever moral calculus makes some of us get a bit more upset about a few ancient pots than, say, little kids getting their limbs blown off. But, much as was the case in Afghanistan (pre-9/11), when the Taliban started detroying ancient statues, it's hard not to get a bit upset about the fact that the museum in Baghdad was looted.

We secured the oil fields, we coulda secured that, too.