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...from all over the world in the past decade - it's possible that the A/H1N1 virus originated in an Asian bird that was exported to Mexico, where it may have reassorted in a pig before infecting people. Far more investigation is still needed, but it's clear that while U.S. officials were looking for flu exports from Asia, they should have also improved surveillance of their southern neighbor. "I think it might have been possible to prevent it," says Daszak. "We should be paying more attention to our own backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Mystery: Why Is Swine Flu Deadlier There? | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...position on the Beltane formal. Officially, HoCo can in no way support or condone any gratuitous or unsafe sexual practices, nor can we officially condemn them. Regardless of our own personal sexual ideologies/moralities, University discrimination policies (rightfully) prevent us from making normative statements regarding sexuality. It should be made clear that all Dunster residents, fertile or infertile, are welcome at Beltane...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Katherine A. Petti | Title: FlyBy's Guide to the Balls | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...dissatisfaction with organized religion, believing that it focuses too much on rules and that religious leaders are too concerned with acquiring power and wealth. "In the 2008 survey, when we asked other religion questions - whether they believed in God, how often they prayed or attended religious services - it was clear that 40% of these unaffiliated people are fairly religious," says Lugo. "They are not indifferent or hostile to religion." Indeed, only 32% of the unaffiliated agreed with the statement that religion is superstition, and even fewer (23%) said belief was important in their decision to leave a religious tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church-Shopping: Why Americans Change Faiths | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...available methods effective? According to a retired operative, some at Langley "are convinced that [Obama] has thrown out the baby along with the waterboard." More generally, some veterans say that the rules of the war on terrorism in the Obama era are no longer clear. "It's very much in flux," says Paul Pillar, a former top agency official who now teaches at Georgetown University. "So much is unresolved - like the various habeas cases involving Gitmo detainees. There are lots of shoes yet to drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Waterboarding: What Interrogators Can Still Do | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Since then, I have traveled the State, talked to Republican leaders and office-holders and my supporters and I have carefully examined public opinion. It has become clear to me that the stimulus vote caused a schism which makes our differences irreconcilable. On this state of the record, I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate. I have not represented the Republican Party. I have represented the people of Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Statement from Senator Arlen Specter | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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