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...each X representing a 1-to-10 dilution) and Cs (hundredfold dilutions). Yet by the laws of chemistry, there is only a 50% chance that a single molecule of the original substance remains in a 24X dilution. In the case of Oscillococcinum (200C), the chance that even one avian molecule has survived is virtually...
...title of her story collection is borrowed from a late novel by Mary McCarthy, who lifted the name from Audubon's celebrated book of avian engravings. But Moore might as well have used Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud's classic essay on humor. The bemused and angry women in Birds defiantly quip their way through trouble. "When I'm sleeping with someone, I'm less obsessed with the mail," says a lonely ex-film star. A reluctant wife explains her conjugal state with the comment, "I married my husband because I thought it would be a great...
...other words, the researchers said, bird memory functions pretty much like ours. Humans remember crucial events by placing themselves back in time mentally; so, it seems, do birds. That poses interesting questions about evolution, since we parted company with the ancestors of our avian companions more than 250 million years ago. Did such advanced information storage arrive before the dinosaurs did? If only we could remember...
Your excellent detective story about the emergence of avian flu [MEDICINE, Feb. 23] was an important reminder that the most threatening bioterrorist may not be a belligerent Iraqi, a lunatic cult or a white-supremacist group but nature itself. Without warning and with little provocation, nature can deploy an army of rats and mice and an air force of birds and stealthy bats to deliver a swarm of deadly new viruses. All we can do is react to the first casualties of such an attack. EDWARD MCSWEEGAN Crofton...
Rather than immunize humans with entirely new vaccines, which are difficult to manufacture and whose use would be economically feasible only in the developed world, it may be more cost effective to immunize poultry and swine against avian and swine (and possibly human) H and N flu antigens to eliminate the reservoirs for antigenic reassortment and thus 1918-type epidemics. ROY CURTISS III, Professor of Biology Washington University St. Louis...