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...raise animals. Seven to nine chickens crammed into a cage the size of a microwave oven is a virus time bomb waiting to explode. Caged chickens stand in their own feces and are never able to stretch their wings. Many have been debeaked, and some have chronic pain and infections. We should ban the inhumane standards of factory farming. I believe that avian flu is the quiet revenge of those millions of chickens, ducks and geese we have tortured unmercifully before they reach our plates...
...case of the Middle East, into nuclear war. These struggles were not ideological, like the standoff of the superpowers. South Africa and the Middle East worked at a nastier level, closer to bone and gene and skin. They had, over the years, arrived at stalemate, a no-exit of chronic hatred. The struggles (whether to liberate one's own people, or to suppress the dangerous other tribe, or simply to survive in the moral airlessness) became prisons. The Men of the Year of 1993 -- Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela -- did nothing more and nothing...
COVER Men of the Year 32 The Peacemakers The conflicts in the Middle East and South Africa seemed frozen in a no-exit of chronic hatred. Then four men decided to find a way to break out, despite continued rage around them...
...raise animals. Seven to nine chickens crammed into a cage the size of a microwave oven is a virus time bomb waiting to explode. Caged chickens stand in their own feces and are never able to stretch their wings. Many have been debeaked, and some have chronic pain and infections. We should ban the inhumane standards of factory farming. I believe that avian flu is the quiet revenge of those millions of chickens, ducks and geese we torture before they reach our plates. Marcela Donato Thornhill, Canada...
...shipment arrives, UHS hopes to vaccinate more than just people who have a high risk of becoming seriously ill with the flu. Last year and thus far this year, UHS has only inoculated individuals who are at high risk, such as the elderly, infants, pregnant women, and people with chronic medical conditions. Rosenthal emphasized the importance of good hand hygiene in preventing the transmission of the flu. Students should use the Purel and other alcohol-based gels available in dining halls, he said. Rosenthal also said it is not too late to be vaccinated. He suggested students check...