
A young girl wears a surgical mask as she sits in a bus in Hong Kong on September 16. http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/09/26/sars.preparations/

A young Afghan girl washes clothes with her feet in the Kabul River on Saturday Sept. 27, 2003. Poverty is rampant in Afghanistan (news - web sites) where one in five children dies before the age of 5 mainly from dysentery caused by the lack of clean drinking water. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) .

The first Olympic Cultural Festival was inaugurated Sunday in Beijing, the host city of the 2008 Olympic Games.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair greets children at a playground during his visit with his deputy John Prescott to the Sure Start center in Weston, Southampton, September 27, 2003. Blair braces for the toughest Labour Party conference of his leadership as his party's five-day annual conference starts in Bournemouth tomorrow. REUTERS/POOL/Chris Ison .

Darrell Robinson, right, sits in his dining room along with his wife, Barbara Wisnieski-Robinson and daughter Kendra, 6, center, looking over photos of the numerous trees that fell on their house and in their yard in Richmond, Va., Friday Sept. 26, 2003. The family had two trees fall on their house during Hurricane Isabel with several more falling around their house as a result of Tuesday's tornado's. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)