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...Since that pandemic more than 40 years ago, there have been no major events involving the global spread of lethal flu infections. There have been cases of dangerous avian flu outbreaks in Asia for a decade which has caused the deaths of a small number of people. Since these flu infections have not spread globally warnings and concerns about pandemics have not been much seen in the media...
...another stock which has traded in the pennies since the beginning of 2009, even though it was the premier insurance company in the world just four years ago. Shares short in AIG fell 3% during the most recent period to 278 million, against an average daily volume of 125 million shares. Eleven percent of the financial firm's float is now sold short. AIG's stock can more up or down 15% on any given day based on information about whether the government will have to add to its $13o billion commitment to the firm and news about its desperate...
After showing promise amidst the Ivy field at the Yale Opener two weekends ago and at last weekend’s Princeton Invitational, Harvard men’s golf had high hopes heading into this weekend’s Ivy Championships. But those hopes will have to wait another year, as the Crimson finished sixth, just ahead of Brown and Cornell. “Very disappointing,” freshman Mark Pollak said. “We just had to show up with our game and we didn’t. The other teams did. We?...
...marriage in California, Arizona and Florida buoyed him. "It's hard for any of us to have a crystal ball to know our culture society will move," says Kurtz. "The Catholic Church will certainly respond with a commitment to truth and love. ... November is not all that long ago, and I still believe that getting out the message about marriage, with a commitment to both truth and love, will succeed. In upholding the traditional definition of marriage, there is not a desire to punish or hurt anyone. We want to do a better job of communicating our concern...
...others associated with Sadr say that for now the militia is effectively dormant. "The Mahdi Army is off the streets by order of the Sadr himself," says Zaid, who spoke to TIME in Najaf and pointed to a standing unilateral cease-fire declared by Sadr roughly a year ago. "If he orders us to go back, we are ready. If he does not, any one of us who goes into the streets carrying weapons, we consider them an enemy." (TIME goes behind the scenes with President Barack Obama in Iraq...