Word: birdness
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...used in remote-control buttons and touch panels, the silicone-rubber keyboard, which has a built-in speaker, can be played for up to 15 hours on four AA batteries. But it's no lightweight. The Hand Roll comes with a set of 128 tones (from acoustic piano to bird tweet), 100 rhythms, 20 prerecorded demo songs and a speaker jack, and it connects to a computer. Next: Inventions Quiz...
...science of hydraulics, as recorded in miniatures, a video and a reproduction of a water-pumping system. The clever automatons they built to amuse the aristocracy are seen only in paintings. One of these, from the early 14th century, limns an elaborate drinking cup topped by a bird that rotates and whistles as the liquid is poured into the base. The show ends with a room of Islamic ceramics traced with elegant calligraphy based on mathematical principles of proportion, and gilded and enameled glassware that required sophisticated technology to keep the brilliant colors from running together...
...That's worth remembering as bird-flu panic begins to intensify around the world. In the West, individuals rattled by the news that the disease has hit poultry populations on the edges of Europe are buying up supplies of the antiviral drug Tamiflu. In Asia, where fresh outbreaks were reported in three countries last week, government officials in China and Australia have already warned of the possibility that they might close national borders in the event of a pandemic...
...long on stockpiles and vaccines, as if the President believes he can build levee walls high enough to keep a pandemic out of the U.S. He can't?and much of that money would be better spent on the ground in countries like Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, where bird flu has hit hardest. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has collected just $30 million of the $175 million it says is needed to control the disease in birds in Southeast Asia, though the World Bank's announcement last week that it will issue emergency loans to nations struggling with...
...Recent increase in the price of star anise, following reports that the Chinese fruit is used to produce the drug Tamiflu, which can help treat bird...