• China's national disease control centre confirmed on Saturday that the girl take ill in Beijing had the H7N9 virus.

    BBC: China bird flu: Beijing reports its first case

  • On the other hand, patching together a new government will not be easy, and may take time that Turkey can ill afford.

    ECONOMIST: A government on the brink | The

  • If you subscribe to the importance of the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, it becomes difficult to take a position that the existence of affirmative action was ill conceived from the outset as to deny that certain defined segments of American society were disadvantaged by who they are would be to deny reality.

    FORBES: The Supreme Court Is the Supremely Wrong Place To Address Affirmative Action

  • Take for example a situation where a terminally-ill father has decided that his gift to his children upon his passing will be the total of his IRA, converted to Roth and with the taxes paid from his other sources, so that the Roth account will be available tax-free to the children.

    FORBES: Who Will Make Your Investment Decisions When You Can't?

  • Last time I checked, there were four major accounting firms (The Big 4) and there have been numerous calls that a fifth is needed to take the place of the ill-fated Arthur Andersen.

    FORBES: Ernst & Young -- Cuomo Initiates Settlement Talks With Filing

  • There are, of course, many what-ifs to take into consideration that can never be proven, but by reversing the ill-gotten win that Seattle notched (the referees admitted to the screw-up and the labor dispute was settled before any other games were played) the Green Bay Packers would currently have 12 wins and automatically have a lock on the second seed with the potential to still grab the first seed.

    FORBES: The Costs Of Bad Decisions Always Surface

  • Her detractors say that she was ill prepared for Harvard's liquidity crisis and slow to take cognizance of the swap exposure.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In New Jersey, a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication for terminally ill patients wishing to take their own lives cleared an Assembly committee Thursday.

    WSJ: Assisted suicide on legal agenda in several states

  • But patients can take the initiative to find a family with a terminally ill loved one and have them consent to donate that person's organs after he or she has died -- an option the Flood sisters are exploring for Pearce.

    CNN: Woman needs 4 organs to survive

  • But whatever its culpability, the American company is going to take the fall for events that have been made much more controversial, and emotional, by the ill-fated cover up.

    FORBES: How Do You Hide an Oil Spill? Ask China.

  • Doctors have warned that anyone who consumed 30 millilitres of the toxic liquor could take up to 12 days to fall ill.

    BBC: Illegal alcohol deaths

  • His decision to sanction, support and add his signature to a plan to take half a billion euros worth of assets back from the bank that now owned them was his most ill-judged move to date.

    BBC: Sean Quinn's jailing reminiscent of Greek tragedy

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