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...than two weeks later, Pranee died of bird flu, the country's 10th confirmed victim of the disease?but one with a major distinction. On Sept. 28, a joint World Health Organization (WHO) and Thai investigation announced what scientists studying the H5N1 bird-flu virus had long feared: Pranee hadn't contracted the disease from chickens. She had almost certainly caught it in the hospital while nursing her dying daughter. Human-to-human transmission of the virus was possible...
...erstwhile champion of consumer rights turned festering thorn in the Democrats' side has managed to get on the ballot as a third-party candidate in 37 states, including Florida, where he won more than 97,000 votes in 2000. Bitter Democrats complain that if the far-left Nader hadn't run that year, Al Gore, who lost by just 537 votes in Florida, would be President today...
...also took moving portraits, many of them black and white, of world leaders, activists and entertainers, but he was forever haunted by his iconic Vietnam photo, which he said he couldn't lay eyes on for two years. He also faced occasional scoldings from colleagues who wondered why he hadn't tried to stop the killing...
...rigors of the journey, but less so for what she discovered about the plight of Tibet's blind. "It was depressing," she remembers. "We met kids who had been tied to a bed for years so they didn't hurt themselves. Some couldn't walk because their parents hadn't taught them." Appalled, Tenberken, with support from her Dutch partner Paul Kronenberg, a development aid worker she met in 1997 in a hostel in Lhasa (the capital of the remote Chinese autonomous region), rode to the rescue. She disentangled the reams of red tape the Tibetan authorities threw...
...Charles Krauthammer argued that after the President's success in Afghanistan and a continued hunt for al-Qaeda, he could have sat back for two years and "coasted to re-election." But what about all those other issues that the Administration would have been forced to address if it hadn't been for the Iraq war? By whipping voters into a prolonged state of fear and anxiety, the President has been able to so effectively mask his abysmal performance on big problems like the economy that apparently even such savvy political essayists as Krauthammer overlook them...