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...record 140 million flu vaccinations expected to be administered this year in the U.S., hospitals and health clinics from Norwood, Mass., to Randolph County, Ala., have started offering drive-by shootings, using concern about the regular old flu to help prep for outbreaks of potentially far graver diseases like avian flu and anthrax...
...Samson, this poses new risks. He worries that cage-free facilities threaten public health by fostering Salmonella. His group’s website even declares the Proposition could bring avian flu to California...
...cage-free chickens are still kept indoors and are hence no more vulnerable to avian flu, which travels in the air, than caged chickens. Moreover, 5-10 percent of California’s egg production is already cage-free, and this hasn’t sparked the feared salmonella epidemic. If anything, less densely packed birds are less vulnerable to air-borne diseases and less likely to require antibiotics to stay alive–which explains the endorsements of the Center for Food Safety and Senators Boxer and Feinstein for Prop...
...piece orchestra from the Broadway musical The Little Mermaid visited the class and orchestrator Danny Troob explained which instruments convey water, waves, swells of emotions and sparkling lights. Stephen Sondheim instructed the kids on how to make sounds scary and rhyme words. The students were enthralled when choreographer Bob Avian coached them as dragons for the "Morning of the Dragon" number in Miss Saigon. Wonderful Town costume designer Martin Pakledinaz explained which costume colors connote sadness and hopefulness...
...1960s, when the firm created the world's first line of wine glasses shaped specifically for different grape varieties. Now Riedel has designed a new set of lead-crystal decanters inspired by the bird life of Murano, the Venetian island famed for its glassware. The three decanters boast an avian grace: the Swan's swooping body, the Flamingo's long slender neck and the Paloma's dove-like curves. And as with any Riedel product, they are masterpieces of function as well as form. Exposing wine to oxygen for a few hours before pouring can improve its taste (thanks...