Word: fall
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...often, when people are trying to put science across, they fall into a trap of using too much jargon. When you hear a scientist speaking on the news, it does sometimes make you cringe a bit. I have to say, one of my favorite TV shows - and I don't know that I should admit this - is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I did go through a phase of four or five books in a row of finding a way of using Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an illustration. [Laughs...
Apparel isn't the only thing that will take a hit. Back-to-school shoppers plan to buy less of the basic stuff that students really need. The National Retail Federation forecasts that spending on notebooks, folders, backpacks and lunch boxes will fall 16% this year. Analysts predict that electronic items like personal computers will also see a sales decline. "We expect that it's going to be a disappointing season," says Ashok Kumar, tech analyst at Collins Stewart, an advisory firm. Kumar points out that life cycles of desktop computers are stretching from four years to as much...
...will compare with the 250,000-500,000 people who die around the world each year from seasonal flu. But ever since the first case of H1N1 flu was reported in Mexico last March, health officials from Washington to Beijing have been girding for a difficult fall and winter. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that anywhere from 15% to 45% of the world's population - 1 billion to 3 billion people - will catch the illness. "We know that influenza usually takes off in the winter months," says Alan Hay, director of WHO's World Influenza Center in London...
...global experience this fall mirrors what happened at Camp Modin, the virus may go down in history as a case study in preparedness. But with a once-in-a-generation bug on the loose and schools opening in the coming weeks, the drama known as H1N1 may just be starting. With reporting by Elizabeth Dias and Sophia Yan / Washington, and Austin Ramzy / Beijing...
Does that mean Barber will have to go another year without his own foie on the menu? No one will know for sure until the birds are slaughtered in late fall. But Sousa remains hopeful. "Eventually," he says, "I know they'll get it right...