European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page is misery mounts in lebanese refugee Camp Hussein palestinian women who fled the refugee Camp of Nahr Elba red sleep on mattresses on the ground at a school monday in the palestinian refugee Camp of in by Bassem Mroue the associated press Beddawi refugee Lebanon the fear of lice spreading through this crowded Palestin Ian refugee where taking a Shower has be come a sent 250 boys and men scurrying to get their hair Beddawi already was cramped before refugees from the nearby Nahr Elba red Camp began packing into schools and mosques and moving in with rela Tives about people have fled nine Days of fight ing Between the lebanese army and Fatah islam militants holed up in Nahr most have fled to compounding the mis Ery of the refugees previously Halimeh Salim Alnajjar was one of the 39 people sharing a classroom where desks had been piled up to serve As our life is miserable Here although its better than Nahr he the shelling was Ter we have lived through several wars but this was the the violence that began on May 20 has killed 20 i 31 lebanese soldiers and up to 60 with conditions deteriorating and no end in sight to the Relief organizations have scrambled to provide fearing the Camp could become an easy target for the Beirut based islamic charitable Reform and guidance association rounded up Barbers on Sun Day to Cut hair to keep lice from and placed showers and Batter operated lamps in class rooms that have been converted into the Agency that oversees palestinian Refu gees has distributed about blankets and Hygiene most of them to people in no Camp can tolerate such a sudden Karen Koning commissioner general for the Relief and works Agency for palestinian said sunday after touring we need to make sure everyone has a place to a has has about palestinian refugees live in Leba including those who left after israels creation in 1948 and their about half live in Pov erty in 12 refugee Camps that Are like Small with two or three Story buildings on narrow streets alongside schools and infected brits a reminder of flu risk by Maria Cheng the associated press London four people in Britain who tested Posi Tive for a mild Strain of Bird flu should serve As a reminder that a virus other than the feared h5n1 Strain could also provoke a flu experts health officials in recent years have focused on the threat from which has killed at least 186 people worldwide since but some experts worry that seemingly less dangerous Bird flu subtypes like h7 Arent getting enough there May be a bit of complacency when it comes to recognizing the pandemic potential of h7 said Michael a world health organization last British authorities confirmed that four peo ple tested positive for a mild Strain of Bird the four were tested in connection with a Small farm in Wales where chickens died health officials were checking 142 other people for including 11 reporting symptoms of flu or More test results Are and officials said the number of confirmed human cases could those who Are thought to have had Contact with h7n2 Are being offered antivirals by health having so Many human cases at once is a potential con in where h5n1 has circulated most millions of people have been exposed to millions of infected resulting in about one new infection per were talking about a Small number of Birds and yet we still have four Perdue unless theres something unusual about the Contact with that suggests the virus is finding new ways of getting into the h7 Subtype has previously sparked human out in a Large outbreak in the Netherlands in 89 human cases were mostly of As Well As one British officials have been Quick to reassure the pub Lic that the Low pathogenic h7n2 virus in compari son to the highly pathogenic h5n1 virus poses Little risk to the japanese homeless populate web cafes the associated press Tokyo its almost Midnight As Ryo settles into a reclining chair for the a can of Tea and a pack of cigarettes at his a construction Job awaiting him in the for the time this cramped cubicle at an internet cafe with its to and flickering pc Monitor is who refused to give his full is part of what experts be Lieve is a new social strata in Japan Young people who live out of 24hour internet cafes to escape the though there Are no reliable num experts warn a growing num Ber of younger japanese Are sleep ing in cheap net cafes like where who is spends five nights a he stays with a Friend on the rising number of people like known As internet cafe Refu has raised enough concern that the health ministry is preparing to study the internet cafes last 13 people contracted tuberculosis at an internet cafe just West of Tokyo that health officials Shizuo a Man walks by a billboard showing the Interior of a 24hour internet Manga cafe in Tokyo on suspect originated from the cafes homeless said Tomohiro Uchino of the health ministry so Cial welfare the phenomenon raises Many is sues in terms of labor and said the prob Lem is that we dont yet have an accurate picture of How Many homeless people there Are in internet How they got or How the government can he behind the Rise of net refugees is japans ballooning population of Young people who hop from one temporary Job to the they Are believed to number More than 2 million a byproduct of the economic crisis that hit Japan a decade As Well As a shift in values among younger generations less ready to conform to the corporate work ethic of their parents and Ryo said part of the reason he ended up homeless was an expensive interest in reggae in his he staged reggae events with his friends and even took trips to los Angeles to study with musicians but then his savings ran he in a City where a tiny studio apart ment rarely costs less than a the cafes Appeal to people like Ryo because staying overnight costs Only a fraction of and the Winner Eduardo Riyo miss Japan won the miss universe 2007 pageant in Mexico City on marking Only the second time her country has won the world Beauty she is an amazing an amazing and i hear that they go totally insane in so that said Donald who crowns the pageant with