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Fighting Swine Flu The rapid spread of swine flu around the world has indeed rung alarm bells about how to prepare for a pandemic [May 18]. Aside from wearing masks and taking care of personal hygiene, we must take action to make sure animal farms are clean and tidy and not hosts to dangerous strains of influenza. A. Jacob Sahayam, Trivandrum, India...
...That is precisely what Ahmadinejad wanted to achieve," said one dispirited Moussavi supporter. "He wanted to redirect people's hatred of corrupt politicians to Moussavi's person, although Moussavi himself is known to be clean...
Today, the coast is clear and clean. But clean is not the same as pristine. Decades ago, some of the spill found its way to a beach on Knight Island in the Sound, a site that scientists studying the accident would designate KN-102 but which during the multiyear cleanup would earn another name: Death Marsh...
...under peer review - and this reporter personally saw oil buried in a handful of beaches. Ironically, the Exxon spill has greatly enhanced scientists' understanding of the effect that crude oil can have on a vulnerable marine environment: it is more toxic to life than we thought, and harder to clean up. "Even the best cleanup will fall short," says Craig Tillery, a deputy attorney general for the state of Alaska - whose Bristol Bay and Chukchi Sea are being considered for offshore oil and gas exploration - and a member of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, which funded the NOAA...
...countries, and to help transfer ideas to the marketplace so they can create jobs. We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops. And today I am announcing a new global effort with the Organization of the Islamic Conference to eradicate polio. And we will also expand partnerships with Muslim communities to promote child and maternal health...