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...Mays made a name for himself as the guy behind the cuddly Volkswagen New Beetle, which is both mod and familiar (the Old Beetle); the Ford Thunderbird, which is...also mod and familiar (the '56 T-Bird). He takes his cue from the notion that you can't move forward without looking over your shoulder, and his popular designs in recent years have ignited a chorus of "Retro!" Which, he argues, misses the point. It's not just backward, it's about forward...
...right. It's more complicated than Retro. It's really about emotion, and getting us to say "Wow!" or "Gee!" or more when we see a car. Among the six cars on display at the Design School is one even more inspiring, edgier, riskier, than the T-bird - the Ford '49. It's a dramatic black coupe with a glass roof that is supposed to hark back to the the car Henry Ford introduced in 1949, a hugely popular model that saved the company from post-war extinction...
...Just as dead was any complacency on the Special Autonomous Region's part that it had solved its problems with bird flu. Health authorities worry about a repeat of 1997, when a strain of avian flu virus?H5N1?jumped directly from a bird to a human. Eighteen people were infected; six died. And the outbreak caused worldwide concern among health experts, who feared a possible global pandemic. Now, despite what is described as a first-class surveillance system for its poultry, Hong Kong is suffering its third lethal outbreak of bird flu in nearly five years. Flu experts...
...Southern China has long been recognized as the incubator of flu viruses. Traditional Chinese farming practices?especially the close proximity of birds, pigs and humans?promote the mixing of viruses, which mutate and leap between species. New strains are constantly evolving as viral genes are swapped between host bird species. "The 1997 strain was a reassortment from three viruses from goose and, we think, the quail," says Kennedy Shortridge, a University of Hong Kong microbiologist who has studied influenza since...
...problem is that when China's chickens sneeze, Hong Kong poultry gets the flu. All live poultry intended for human consumption in Hong Kong?some 33.4 million birds in 2001?is imported from the mainland, either ready for sale or as chicks to be raised locally. Of the territory's daily chicken consumption, only 20% is reared on 146 local farms; the rest are transported directly from China. Currently the Chinese government keeps no accurate or accessible official records of animal disease outbreaks. October reports of bird flu in Fujian province and the slaughter of 10,000 ducks and chickens...