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Could phone help limit epidemics?
The Columbus Dispatch
| TOKYO -- A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls. | If nothing is done, the disease will quickly spread among the...
Japan explores using cellphones to stop pandemics
USA Today
Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Kazuhiro Nogi, AFP/Getty Images A medical staff member wearing a protective mask and suit makes a phone call at a triage station at an entrance of a hospital in Osaka, western Japan o...
Japan eyes cellphones in controlling pandemic
Inquirer
| TOKYO—A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. | The epidemic will start with several unwitting children who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls. | If nothing is...
Japan Explores Using Cell Phones to Stop Pandemics
The New York Times
| Filed at 8:37 a.m. ET | TOKYO (AP) -- A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wa...
Japan explores using cell phones to stop pandemics
The Press Democrat
| If nothing is done, it will quickly gain momentum and rip through the student body, then jump to parents and others in the community. But officials will attempt to stymie the disease and save the school - using mobile phones. | The sickness will be...
Could phone help limit epidemics?
The Columbus Dispatch
| TOKYO -- A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls. | If nothing ...
Japan explores using cell phones to stop pandemics
The Star
| TOKYO (AP): A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls. | If nothi...
Don't reach out and touch anyone: Japan to see if phones can help limit pandemics
Star Tribune
| TOKYO - A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls. | If nothing i...
Japan explores using cell phones to stop pandemics
Wtop
By JAY ALABASTER | Associated Press Writer | TOKYO (AP) - A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they att...
Japan explores using cell phones to stop pandemics
The Miami Herald
| TOKYO -- A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls. | If nothing ...
Don't reach out and touch anyone: Japan to see if phones can help limit pandemics
Newsday
| TOKYO (AP) — A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls. | I...
Japan Explores Using Cell Phones To Stop Pandemics
WPXI
TOKYO -- A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls. | If nothing is...
Japan explores using cell phones to stop pandemics
The News & Observer
| TOKYO -- A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend classes and wander the halls. | If nothing ...
Japan Headlines
Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alberto Romulo, left, meets Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso at the latter's office in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008.
(photo: AP / Junji Kurokawa, Pool)
Japan PM seeks votes with approval ratings low
Syracuse
| (AP) - TOKYO - Approval ratings for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's Cabinet are hovering above 20 percent, two surveys showed-better than earlier this year but still dismally low for a leader trying to keep his party in power. | A Kyodo news agency survey Sunday showed that support for Aso stood at 23.4 percent, up 5.9 percentage points from t...
Asian Law
A British soldier from Sea Squadron, 9th and 12th Lancers and the Boat Troop, 32nd Engineer Regiment, all part of the Strike Battle Group, pulls security prior to a reconnaissance operation mission at Forward Operating Base Oxford in Basra, Iraq, Oct. 26, 2008.
(photo: US Army / Spc. Karah Cohen)
The soldiers give all, while the politicians starve them of cash
The Guardian
| When you're left wounded on Afghanistan's plains | And the women come out to cut up what remains | Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains | And go to your Gawd like a soldier | There's no heroism to be found in "The Young British Soldier", Kipling's poem written after the Afghan war of the 1880s: simply acknowledgement of the country's ...
Tokyo
 In this photo distributed by Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc., in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 26, 2005, Sony Network Walkman Bean MP3 players, Sony Corp.´s latest line of portable music player Walkman series, in four different colors are shown. With its unique e
(photo: AP Photo/Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc., HO)
Sony Walkman turns 30 in a world smitten with iPod
Denver Post
| Sony Corp.'s first Walksman is shown at a special display commemorating the Walkman's 30th anniversary that opens Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at Sony Archive building in Tokyo, Japan. When the Sony Walkman went on sale 30 years ago, it was shown off by a skateboarder to illustrate how the portable cassette-tape player delivered music on-the-go _ a t...



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