A hospital source said Abe underwent tests Monday as a follow-up to a checkup he underwent in June.
Mmm, sterilized!
Lisa Barrow Anthropomorphic (Animal) Artwork "Why, oh why pasteurize if you don't swat the flies!" Illustration from Dr. Evans' How to Keep Well: A Health Book for the Home (1917) by W.A. Evans, M.S., M.D., LL.D., D.P.H.
Spain's government is to meet in emergency session after the storm carved a swathe of destruction.
Donald Trump disrupted the Republican party, the presidential-election process and, ultimately, Washington. Less expected are emerging signs that his disruptive force may be greater on international affairs than domestic policy, Gerald F. Seib writes.
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“Jacob the Rich” was a late-medieval banker from Germany. Were he alive today, he would have cut a swathe through Wall Street and the City. His story is still little known
China is in the midst of a massive crackdown on corruption overseen by Xi, but the government has repeatedly had to swat away criticism that the campaign is more about an internal power play than actually tackling graft.
There's a real buzz about the small teams designing drones, but will they be swatted away by giants like Google and Amazon?
As Amazon and Google race to control the commercial drone market, will...
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Some of the most important metadata, cellphone location information,
varies depending on the area covered by a cell tower. In rural areas,
one tower may serve wide swaths of territory, but in urban areas, towers
are more targeted.
Charge over Boat Race disruption
Research In Motion said it has fully restored service to its global BlackBerry network, as it ramped up communication with carriers and customers -- apologizing for the largest outage in its history.
Reporting from Paris - Google's ambitious plan to haul large swathes of the world's library onto the Internet suffered a blow Friday when a French court ordered the world's most powerful search engine to stop digitizing copyrighted French books.
Cellphone Users Told To Expect Delays
Pre-inauguration concertgoers who flocked to the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday sent about 10 times the volume of wireless calls, text messages, pictures and videos as on the busiest hour of a typical day, causing scattered outages that customers who gather for President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in...
(By Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post)
Finding the space is the trick. The old city center is basically unusable: Mr. Qu estimates it will take two years just to clear out the rubble. The temporary housing also will occupy big
swaths of land, further reducing the area available for permanent housing. So he thinks Dujiangyan will have to be rebuilt around a new city center, probably one of the small villages on the outskirts of the current town.
Mideast Web
Outage Spreads to India
Fallout spread from a cut in two undersea Internet cables off Egypt's coast, with widespread
disruptions in India and outages still hampering a wide
swathe of the Mideast.
假報警，又稱報假案，是一種欺騙緊急服務的騷擾策略。當事人通常會聯繫警方或其它緊急情況部門，虛構並不存在的緊急情況，將警察或其他緊急服務響應人員派往一處地點，以達到惡作劇或其它目的。在大多數國家，這種行為都可能違法。
Definition of swat in English:
VERB (swats, swatting, swatted)
[WITH OBJECT]
1.1Hit (someone) with a sharp blow:she swatted him over the head with a rolled-upmagazine
Origin
early 17th century (in the sense 'sit down'): northern English dialect and US variant of
squat.
swat
Compare them to the sober but ill senior citizens; the ones most religious-minded are swatted against the floor like flies where they fossilize.
She could only swat away so many.
swathe (AREA)
noun
1 [C] (
ALSO swath)
a long strip or large area especially of land:
Huge swathes of rain forest are being cleared for farming and mining.
2 [S] LITERARY a varied section or range:
These people represent a broad/wide swathe of public opinion.
outage (信號或系統)被切斷或當機，失效
通訊工程 LPO (Local Processor outage) 本地處理故障
forced outage 強迫停機
Chunghwa Telecom to Issue Statement on Cable Outages Today(2006/12/27) Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's largest telephoneoperator, will issue a statement at 11 a.m. Taipei time regarding underseacable outages, spokeswoman Tsai Cho-fen said by telephone. ---
這次地震使台灣、新加坡、香港、南韓和日本的電信服務中斷，不過世界其他部分也感到其效應餘波盪漾。據該地區的電信業報告，他們努力將通信轉接到其他電信幹道時，許多電話用戶無法接達歐洲。「這次我們經歷的是大規模的故障，範圍含蓋整個亞洲東部和西南諸國.」
The quake disrupted services in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, but a ripple effect was felt in other parts of the world. Many phone subscribers could not get through to Europe, regional telecommunications operators reported, as they raced to reroute their traffic to alternative lanes.
今天讀wsj美國衛星收音系統失靈的報導
衛星系統似乎有很嚴重的可靠性問題
去年2006年中共的衛星直播電視 一上太空 很快就失靈 消息封瑣
這報導也說明一般的可靠工程技術都用上了 理論上微乎其微的機會 實際都發生了
表示這領域有大的 "知"與"行"之間的落差
XM Suffers Service Outage
Due to Problems With Satellite
