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266 builders remain hospitalized in Moscow, 85 outside townMOSCOW. Aug 20 (Interfax) - Three hundred and fifty-one builders from the Moscow hotel construction site at Tverskaya 3, hospitalized earlier this week with symptoms of food poisoning, remained at clinics in and outside Moscow as of 8 a.m., Sunday. One hundred of the 226 construction workers, admitted to Moscow hospitals, are in serious condition. The condition of 166 patients is satisfactory. Most of them are Turkish citizens, but there are also citizens of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova and Russia, a Moscow medical source told Interfax. Eighty-five builders are being treated at hospitals outside Moscow. All of them are citizens of Turkey," the source said. Salmonella was diagnosed in 51 builders taken to Moscow clinics on Saturday, he said. Many of the hospitalized construction workers are expected to be discharged on Monday and Tuesday. read more. Joyce, Dickens, Google -- classics are there to downloadFor instance, a search for ``Sydney Carton," a character in Charles Dickens' novel ``A Tale of Two Cities," produces the novel itself, as well as a variety of other books--including biographies of Dickens and analyses of his work. But until yesterday, Google Book Search lagged behind other, smaller Internet services such as the Gutenberg Project and the Internet Archive. Now Web users can use Google's powerful servers not only to look up words in the Dickens novel, but also to download a copy -- a process that can take anywhere from a few seconds to about 15 minutes, depending on the size of the book and the speed of the user's Internet connection. The book arrives as a set of scanned images from a printed copy of the book, and some include original drawings, library markings and notes jotted in the margins by previous borrowers. read more. Joyce, Dickens, Google -- classics are there to downloadFor instance, a search for ``Sydney Carton," a character in Charles Dickens' novel ``A Tale of Two Cities," produces the novel itself, as well as a variety of other books--including biographies of Dickens and analyses of his work. But until yesterday, Google Book Search lagged behind other, smaller Internet services such as the Gutenberg Project and the Internet Archive. Now Web users can use Google's powerful servers not only to look up words in the Dickens novel, but also to download a copy -- a process that can take anywhere from a few seconds to about 15 minutes, depending on the size of the book and the speed of the user's Internet connection. The book arrives as a set of scanned images from a printed copy of the book, and some include original drawings, library markings and notes jotted in the margins by previous borrowers. read more. |
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