Gady Epstein

baltimoresun.com — BEIJING - In a rare admission of serious mistakes, the Chinese government fired the minister of health and the mayor of Beijing yesterday for their early mishandling of the respiratory disease known as SARS, canceled a national weeklong holiday and reported almost 10 times as many SARS cases in Beijing, with hundreds more likely to come.

focus.de — Der Siegeszug von Netflix, so hieß es, würde dem alten Fernsehen den Todesstoß versetzen. Niemand (jedenfalls nicht in den USA) werde mehr als 80 Dollar monatlich für 200 Kanäle ausgeben, von denen er maximal ein Dutzend nutzt. Die Kunden würden stattdessen für 13 Dollar pro Monat „The Crown“ als Stream ansehen. Weit gefehlt. 2020 beginnt das neue Streaming-Zeitalter des Fernsehens.

baltimoresun.com — Second of three articles As the Columbia parents looked on protectively through the morning fog, their children clambered onto the yellow school bus. It seemed an ordinary bus, except it took a strange turn - toward a new public school in rural Fulton, away from an older, more diverse Columbia middle school rejected by the kids' parents. This unusual bus ride, repeated daily in Columbia's Clemens Crossing neighborhood, has become a metaphor for discontent in the town's older schools.