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With 44 people infected and 32 dead from the avian flu, it wasn't a good year to spend time near ducks or chickens, particularly in Southeast Asia. Millions of fowl were culled in Thailand and Vietnam, which bore the brunt of this year's outbreak of H5N1 influenza, as fear of a widespread epidemic mounted. Public-health officials were particularly alarmed when the virus showed up in tigers, leopards and pigs, mammals that often serve as influenza bridges from animal reservoirs to humans. And in Thailand scientists identified one case of what they fear was human-to-human transmission...
...never becomes more than a style exercise. As Sellers did, it desperately throws stunts at you to keep your attention. When it sheds light on Sellers' craft as an actor, it is fascinating. But above all, this is the story of a man his first wife lambastes as a "bore of a little boy." Life and Death finally proves her right. --By James Poniewozik
Undergraduate Council presidential hopefuls Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06 were campaigning outside the Science Center on a misty, cold Tuesday, the seventh of December. Their supporters bore competing signs—yellow for Moore and orange for Glazer—and a cacophony of shouted slogans filled the air. On the walk back from the Science Center, students were greeted by these same signs pasted on kiosks, stapled to House billboards, stuffed into mailboxes and slipped under room doors...
...there is no single name for what I feel, more a constant singing in my heart." But Attallah didn't write the letter - nor the 12 books; the hundreds of newspaper columns and magazine articles; or the countless other missives, from business letters to thank-you notes, that bore his name. For nearly 15 years, his every public word was composed by Jennie Erdal, who masqueraded as an editor at Attallah's London publishing firm but worked as his full-time ghostwriter. Now Erdal tells all in Ghosting: A Memoir (Canongate; 273 pages), a meditation on literary identity...
...goal is to create theater that is dynamic, inventive, challenging--and that won't bore kids," says Peter Brosius, artistic director of Minneapolis' Children's Theater Company, who regularly checks out companies in Europe, where theater for young people has long been more audacious (and, not coincidentally, better funded) than in the U.S. "Young audiences are more associative, nonlinear. They're willing to go on the journey." Brosius' company has staged an interactive, site-specific production of Antigone and, last spring, an evocative performance piece called Prom, in which students and teachers re-enact the anxiety- ridden rite of passage...