New South Wales sits in the southeast corner of Australia, but for a week in mid-March the country's most populous state was located squarely in the center of the Bullying Universe.
From the start of the measles epidemic in April 2009 through the end of week 10 (mid-March) of 2011, a total of 24,379 cases were reported; 24 were fatal (20 ).
The first household survey was carried out at the start of the first of the two annual dry seasons, over a period of five weeks from mid-July to mid-August 2012, while the second one was done over a period of two weeks from the beginning of mid-February 2013, which was an early start of the first rainy season.
Eight weeks during the general time period of mid-May to mid-August.
In November 2010, suspected cases of cholera were first reported from adjacent Dominican Republic, and from the first week of January 2011 to mid-December 2012, there were 28,571 cases of cholera with 418 deaths associated with this outbreak in that country (24).
Well here's your chance to skip a week of hell mid-December, fly down to Australia, go to the Meredith Music Festival, have after-parties in your hotel, and get a bunch of adidas Originals gear to barter your way backstage with.
Prices (and demand) spike in the mid-February for school vacation week, and peak in mid-March before falling gradually at the tail end of the season.
At the end of a week in mid-October when the Dow Jones soared past 10,000, Goldman Sachs recorded "just another fantastic quarter" with a $3.2 billion quarterly profit, JPMorgan Chase raked in a cool $3.6 billion, and a New York Times headline declared "Bailout Helps Revive Banks, And Bonuses," I spent a Saturday evening with about 100 people camped out in a northern California parking lot.
In fact this was the quietest week for large scale gun violence in the nation since the middle of spring: Although one week in mid-August tied it for the least number of mass shooting deaths, the past seven days saw the lowest number of large-scale shooting events and total victims in a week since the last full week of May.
The two-week inflow total of approximately $1.2 billion follows two weeks of outflows totaling $3 billion in mid-March.
I.M.F. officials held two weeks of meetings in Zimbabwe in mid-March that yielded only a statement of concern about the deepening of the crisis.
