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--South Florida resident Vivian Gill on her dog's encounter with a poisonous Bufo Marinus toad. These huge South American toads have been overrunning Florida since their introduction earlier this century.
Professors now use the World Wide Web, CD-ROMs, digitized video and e-mail to give their students a better understanding of the complex situations they will encounter in the business world.
"It's Sarah Collins," she said confidently, and then, without the uncomprehending pause I always encounter on the other end of the phone, she skipped directly to the phone number. No "How do you spell 'Collins'?" or "Sarah, my, that's unusual."
For governments whose stability is in question, such programs are not high priorities. ProMED co-founder Stephen Morse, who now heads a new infectious-disease program at Columbia University, notes that in these cases, the who has stepped in to provide training and sharing of lab facilities. But the efforts...
Here's some advice on how to survive an encounter with a bear on a hiking trip: make sure you take a friend along and run like hell. In choosing your companion, it is important that you select someone older, in worse physical shape and with more cellulite than you...