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...very vulnerable to the avian-influenza pandemic that is expected to spread around the world [Oct. 17]. Those countries lack the means to fight the flu. There are millions of chickens in small areas like the island of Java in Indonesia. Should the flocks become infected and the bird-flu virus mutate and spread to human beings, it would put Indonesia's 220 million people at risk...
...bird-flu pandemic could be avoided if we stopped raising poultry for human consumption. Chickens could still be preserved for egg production through breeding in controlled laboratories. That would be a drastic step, but it is necessary for disease prevention. If governments do not wish to do that, they should concentrate the slaughter of poultry in a few (very few) regional slaughterhouses to reduce contact between chickens and humans. The time...
...effortlessly over and under the hazy ambient textures for which BoC is famous. Tracks like “’84 Pontiac Dream” and “Oscar See Through Red Eye” brim over with cascading jazzy riffs, while “Slow This Bird Down” and “Ataronchronon” give fans the traditional moody BoC fare. But of course for the diehard fans, the real question is: “Where are the subliminal messages?” Past BoC staples include Satanic symbolism, esoteric mathematical facts (what...
...Murakami’s latest novel, “After Dark.” Their professional relationship has turned into a friendship over the course of fifteen years. While living in the same Cambridge neighborhood, Rubin often consulted Murakami over his translation of “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.” In a way, their relationship is like the one that could have blossomed between Carver and Murakami, had he lived...
...pretty frank about it. Whenever Haruki’s new book doesn’t appeal to him he says so openly and that seems to be working well,” Shibata says. Rubin translated “Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” which earned him acclaim in the U.S. But Murakami has more than one translator: Alfred Birnbaum, who translated much of Murakami’s early work, and Philip Gabriel, who translated Murakami’s latest big hit in English, “Kafka...