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...optimistic ancestors, takes attacks on its motives personally. The ferocity of the global debate may not change attitudes here toward war, but it changes the calculations of its cost. Meanwhile, that optimism is showing signs of wear. Americans proved themselves tough and resilient after 9/11, but last week's alarm left people asking one another, Is this just the way it's going to be now, and forever...
...crazy to think you would one day drive the family into the mountains.) How else to explain GM research showing that the No. 1 reason people buy midsize SUVs is that the vehicles have four-wheel drive, a feature most people rarely need? Americans frequently pay extra for security: alarm systems, travel insurance, fire extinguishers. If you consider what they can do on dirt and snow, SUVs aren't materially different...
...Hong Kong was almost the birthplace of a disastrous pandemic. A strain of avian flu called H5N1 leaped the species barrier and infected 18 people, killing six, before the slaughter of the city's 1.4 million chickens helped stop the spread. Last week, alarm bells rang anew when a local 33-year-old man and his nine-year-old son contracted a similar virus. The father died of pneumonia Feb. 17, while the son remains in stable condition. Officials say the victims were probably infected through contact with chickens while visiting China's Fujian province, and that until H5N1...
...officer was sent to the Faculty Club to investigate a report of flashing alarm lights on the building. All was in order...
...class in Annenberg and someone pulled the fire alarm...so I got a 40 minute respite from Expos,” said Melissa E. Cronin ’06. “A fire day instead of a snow...