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...says the latest outbreaks show that the virus has become endemic to the region, with a difficult-to-eradicate foothold in migratory birds, creating a biological time bomb that could go off without warning. With wide-scale production of an H5N1 human vaccine several months away at the earliest, experts are urging governments to clean up poultry farming and transportation, reassess live-market practices and intensify disease surveillance in birds and humans. "We must face the problem, not avoid it," says Yi-or the problem will face us soon enough...
...York all summer and could meet at your earliest convenience. I know that you’re a very busy man, but when people start to ask if I’m your daughter, you want to be able to say you know me, right...
...film never masquerades as a comedy; the serious moments are so constant that even the most impervious viewer is guaranteed to shake his or her head at least a few times. In New York, head shakes were audible gasps—first, in the movie’s earliest minutes, for the numerous black House representatives who stood up to protest the 2000 election’s results in Congress but were not allowed to lodge their objections because they lacked the support of a single senator. This disquieting spectacle is something the cable news networks seemed to miss...
...Sutra of the 10 Kings, discovered in the Chinese city of Gaochang in Xinjiang province, shows one of the earliest known Chinese depictions of hell and is the exhibit's best example of the evolution of Buddhism along the Silk Road. Composed in the 10th century by a Chinese monk, the sutra illustrates the purgatorial journey of the soul from death to rebirth in one of seven orders of being, ranging from the highest, bodhisattvas (those who have attained enlightenment), to hungry ghosts or, still worse, those who have been banished to hell. The sutra was one of the first...
Edwards says she hopes to establish other regional centers on the Santiago model, perhaps in South Asia, Africa, Greece, the United Kingdom or Mexico, the earliest of which could open during the 2005-2006 academic year—assuming donations to start these programs come...