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Less than 48 hours after a dramatic 32-29 victory over the Carolina Panthers in Houston, the New England Patriots returned, triumphantly hoisting their two Vince Lombardi trophies from the tops of 10 Boston Duck Tour amphibious buses rolling along a 1.5-mile parade route lined ten people deep from Copley Square to City Hall...
...chicken or duck? Yes. Avian flu is not a food-borne virus, so eating poultry is safe. Buy frozen, processed poultry products, and cook them thoroughly because heat kills flu viruses. Cooked eggs...
...Long-Haired Hare,? ?Yankee Doodle Daffy,? ?Duck Amuck,? ?Wabbit Twouble,? ?Fast and Furry-ous,? ?Feed the Kitty.? These titles of Warner Bros. cartoon shorts from the 40s and 50s don?t sound like the names of enduring works of cinematic art. But they are, as surely as Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett and Friz Freleng were among the great comedy directors; as surely as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are two of the deftest farceurs to grace the movie medium. Now, on a four-disc DVD set, ?Looney Tunes Golden Collection,? the magnificent menagerie lives again, pristinely restored...
...clue might be simple geography. Every afflicted country or territory is contiguous, either by land or sea, with China. The mainland was the source of Hong Kong's previous outbreaks, and Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department officials in the city sometimes turn back containers of chickens and ducks that have tested positive for antibodies to avian flu. China refuses to officially acknowledge that it has an H5N1 problem. But as recently as last March, according to a document obtained by TIME, China's Ministry of Health was requesting from the WHO H5N1 reagents, which are used to test for presence...
...aviation a second time. A prurient daredevil, he found that his new device facilitated a midair assignation with a female flight student?thereby unofficially inaugurating the Mile High Club. Things almost ended tragically that day: Sperry's boat plane went crashing into a New York bay, where two bewildered duck hunters saved the naked couple...