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Chances are your shirt, your pants and your underwear all came from southern China, the new manufacturing center of the world. Add one more export: your flu virus. With its dense populations of people and animals trading germs back and forth, southern China has been the traditional birthplace of influenza, including the nasty strain of H5N1 bird flu that's keeping public-health officials awake at night. The viruses that evolve in a chicken in southern China's Guangdong province could eventually end up in your lungs--and that's what makes a chain-smoking, impetuous Chinese virologist named...
...very, very dedicated to Harvard volleyball, and that’s great as a freshman.” Neither team could establish a comfortable advantage to open the match. In a frame that featured eight tie scores and six lead changes, the Quakers put forth a strong offensive effort but found themselves struggling to put a scrappy Crimson squad away. Coming out of a Penn timeout with the scored tied at 20, Harvard took three of the next four points, including aces by Mahon and junior co-captain Sarah Cebron, to move ahead 23-21. But the Quakers went...
...last pumpkin piece, slowly lifted the lantern in the air, and mouthed the single syllable—“LIFE”—that he had etched across in perfect block letters. The jack o’ lantern’s flame spontaneously burst forth from the wick as if lit by an invisible presence. With this simple gesture, Stollichnaya had combined the spirit of Halloween and Camp Sunshine. If there were a Guinness record for heart, he probably would have broken it. Deciding to burn the lantern at both ends, we returned to the Common under...
...Remele is the head-in-the-clouds artist/academic, Whitman holds up the business end. She speaks in a clipped tone and shuttles the samples back and forth from the bedroom to the racks. A member of the Bee Club and its historian, she has attracted many of her fellow...
...equal rights. Through the years, America has dished out enough oppression to go around. Much of it has been strikingly similar. The anti-miscegenation laws that were enacted in much of the South were rooted in interpretations of the Bible. Interracial intimacy was seen as unnatural. Blacks were put forth as filthy sub-humans who wanted to muddy white bloodlines and thus destroy the goodness of the white race. Race mixing was akin to bestiality. Sound familiar? "Defenders" of marriage, from Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to Justice Antonin Scalia to Pope Benedict, have tossed out arguments just like these...