Word: birdness
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Dick Cheney's reluctance to reveal how his shooting idyll exploded into a bird-shot blunder triggered readers to pepper the V.P. with charges of unaccountability. But others insisted the press misfired...
...power and experience to handle the increasingly difficult internal security challenge symbolized by Monday's Gaza firefights. Still, Hamas is taking a pragmatic approach, blessing current talks about opening border crossings to ease the stranglehold on Gaza's food supplies and also on combating a regional outbreak of bird...
Dick Cheney's reluctance to reveal how his Armstrong Ranch idyll exploded into a bird-shot blunder triggered readers to pepper the V.P. with charges of sly unaccountability. But others insisted that the only misfire in the overblown affair was the press shooting itself in the foot...
...This is the hardest kind of risk to focus on because it?s potentially huge but nobody knows if it will happen or how big it will be," the consultant says. One possibility is that bird flu will mutate and start infecting people easily, but the result is only a mild pandemic, like the flu pandemic of 1968. (Many people who were alive then still aren?t aware they lived through a pandemic.) In that case, people will wonder what all the fuss was about. But another possibility is that the pandemic will be severe...
...Sandman has some advice for journalists covering the bird flu as well: stop focusing so much on birds and other animals that get infected. "The problem with people focusing on bird flu and not a pandemic among humans is that as long as there?s no bird flu in town, they think they?re safe. We really need people to understand that it?s not about the birds. You?re not at any greater risk after a bird is found to be infected and you?re not any safer before an infected bird is found." The key moment will come...