Word: ducking
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...missed the parade because I simply had no desire to stand in the cold and watch those stupid Duck Boats crawl by. Again. I did that a mere 14 weeks ago, when the Red Sox celebrated their first title since the Wilson administration...
...worst was over when he buried his two-year-old son on Dec. 25. The boy had drowned two days before in a fishpond near their home in northern Vietnam's Thai Binh province, and Viet was undone by the death. At the funeral the family served raw duck blood and porridge?rural comfort food. Although they had heard that the avian influenza that swept Southeast Asia last year had returned, they thought the disease was confined to the south. The day after the funeral, Viet fell sick with flulike symptoms. He was hospitalized on Dec. 31, and tested negative...
...epidemiological investigations have shown it may be equally probable that the brothers were infected by their raw-duck-blood porridge as by each other. "It's too early to tell," says Hans Troedsson, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Hanoi representative. Even if there was person-to-person transmission within the family, it hasn't spread farther, as a pandemic-causing virus likely would. (A recent New England Journal of Medicine article confirmed that such limited human-to-human transmissions occurred last September in Thailand.) But the threat of a pandemic hasn't diminished: as of last Friday, Vietnam...
...Vietnam's traditional poultry practices are dangerous because dense populations of people and birds mingle at virtually every step of production, from chick to ph? pot. With the virus embedded in the local duck and chicken population, repeated human-bird contact means "it's inevitable you'll get human infection," says Webster. Vietnam is trying to halt such infections by modernizing its poultry industry, limiting human-bird contact, but that won't be easy. More than 80% of its poultry producers are small-scale farmers who raise a few dozen birds to eat or sell?and few keep their flocks...
...lost hold of the territory's rudder when Beijing stepped in nine months ago to slam the door on the possibility of direct elections of his successor in 2007. With only 30 months left-by law, he isn't permitted to seek a third consecutive term-Tung's lame-duck slide has been accompanied by a startling rise in public activism, most often against government projects, such as an ambitious plan to build the largest urban arts and cultural district in Asia within a decade. Beijing itself may have prompted or even dictated the tone of self-criticism: last month...