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...this made the flu virus a tenacious foe from the outset, but once humans invented farming and learned to cultivate animals, we made a bad situation much worse. All at once, chickens, ducks and pigs - which never had much to do with one another - began living cheek to jowl in high numbers and often unsanitary conditions. Farm families and people working in live markets then began mingling with the critters. That's a pathogenic speed blender, and the viruses have taken full advantage of it. "It's really an ecological issue," says Daszak...
...game. The audience roared with laughter, but he wasn’t finished yet. “You need to learn when to pull out...of a relationship,” Nick quipped. Where could you have listened to the advice of such a sagely wisecracking (fictional) bro? Too bad, you missed out unless you attended Harvard’s inaugural Playwrights Festival, which was held April 23 through April 26 at the New College Theatre. The festival of staged readings was the culmination of the semester-long efforts of undergraduates in English Camr: “Advanced Playwrighting...
...Boston and Cambridge areas. Former camper and current SUP Director Nehemie Bernard, who is also a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, described her experience as an example of the continuity fostered by the program. “This past summer when I was having a bad day my campers drew a poster with my picture on it and included things I had been telling them all summer,” she said. “Knowing that the campers appreciated me being there, it made me dedicated to giving back. That...
...task forces, he should remember that no amount of IQ can cure the human condition. Like Republicans, Democrats are prone to overemphasize their favorite facts and theories, to gloss over contradictory data, to skew their analysis to match their values. That doesn't make them dumb people or bad people. It just makes them people...
...current interrogation techniques and the Army Field Manual. But some agency veterans say the manual, while serving as a good starting point, is ultimately inadequate against hardened al-Qaeda operatives. "There's a feeling among [some current agency staffers] that the Army Field Manual is useless against the really bad guys," says a retired CIA staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Typically, these guys have been through brutal torture by the authorities in their own countries - Yemen, Jordan, Egypt - so they're not going to talk if you just tickle the soles of their feet." Although the staffer...