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...Right now this pandemic would appear to be a mild one," says the center's director, Alan Hay, 65. "But influenza viruses can change quite suddenly. And there's no reason another, more dangerous virus couldn't emerge with pandemic potential. It's crucial that we keep our eye on the ball...
...leader Jalaluddin Haqqani has used his madrassas in Waziristan to mount vicious attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Similarly, Mullah Omar, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, may intervene to back one of the men in contention. Aftab Sherpao, Pakistan's former Interior Minister, says Omar's support was crucial to Mehsud's ambitions when the Pakistani Taliban was formed...
...Love Why do women get pudgy after finding love? The reasons stated in your article "First Comes Love, Then Comes Obesity?" laid out a few valid points but not the crucial one [July 20]. When a woman has got her man she folds away her advertising flags and takes down the billboards. Like any precious object that has been snapped up, she is no longer on the market and any further allure would only complicate matters. If only our buyers would appreciate this and not start looking around at other billboards when they realize that theirs no longer...
...uncertain and even ignorant, and therefore obliged to figure out new ways of seeing problems and fresh ways of solving them. At this particular American inflection point, after the crash and before the rebuild, frankly admitting that we aren't absolutely certain how to proceed is liberating, and crucial. I like paradoxes, which is why, even though I'm not particularly religious, Zen Buddhism has always appealed to me. Take the paradoxical state that Buddhists seek to achieve, what they call sho-shin, or "beginner's mind." The 20th century Japanese Zen master Shunryu Suzuki, who spent the last dozen...
...previous designs. But Areva's EPR boasts innovations that led the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists to call its design the only one with "the potential to be significantly safer and more secure against attack than today's reactors." Areva spokesman Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier said the win was crucial to establishing the firm as the leader in advanced nuclear technology. "A nuclear installation is unique, because you can't simulate it on a computer or assemble and operate a prototype in a hangar," Saulnier says. "You only see how it works once you've built it and proved...