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...vaccine disease.” The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, concluded that the swine flu virus “seemed to be not very good at infecting man and may have died out as a result” and implied that the U.S. response to a minimal danger,” and suggested that the government stockpile the vaccine and administer it only if swine flu reappeared...
...Book Espresso Machine, Google Books, and the myriad other print digitization schemes now afoot carry the danger of turning research into something that can be conducted without ever leaving the compass of one’s local bookstore—or even one’s desk. Surely the heyday of the academic as an explorer, an adventurer, traveling to distant libraries in search of rare and exotic books, has already passed. But must technology wipe away all vestiges of that former side to the vocation...
There's no question that President Barack Obama is taking his time in deciding whether to send the 40,000 extra U.S. troops to Afghanistan that his commander has requested. The debate in Washington is over whether that delay constitutes dangerous "dithering" in the face of a growing danger or prudent pause in the face of a looming quagmire...
...mile-wide (14 km) archipelago where the Mekong fans out and the land dissolves into thousands of muddy, grass-covered islands, islets and sandbars. The fact that only three islands offer tourist accommodation (rudimentary at that) tells you that this far-flung part of Champasak province is in no danger of being generally discovered - yet. But the more astute backpackers are trickling in on tiny wooden ferryboats, in slowly growing numbers, lured by the chance to do not very much at dirt-cheap prices...
...growing danger of the U.S. "losing Fatah" was highlighted recently when, in response to Israel's threats to refuse negotiations if the Palestinians backed U.N. discussion of the Goldstone report, the Obama Administration leaned on Abbas to withdraw support for taking up the issue at the U.N. Abbas initially complied, but was forced by a firestorm of criticism from both Hamas and Fatah to quickly change course...