David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb describes how Chernobyl, and Moscow's hush-hushing of the disaster, was the spark that lit the fuse of popular outrage that eventually led to the implosion of the Soviet Empire.

Makes you wonder: Is SARS China's Chernobyl?

Quote: "Morgan Stanley's Steven Roach calls SARS the 'nail in the coffin' ensuring a global recession." Yikes.