Word: hogs
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...fact that the Bush proposal didn't kill the orbiting cash hog outright may be because it can't be killed. With contractors and subcontractors across 22 states and uncounted electoral constituencies, the station has long been a kind of cunningly planted political kudzu, impossible to pull out stem and root. If domestic commitments didn't lock the station in place, commitments to NASA's 15 international partners certainly do. And while the station thrives, so too must the three living shuttles, since they exist largely to ferry up parts and crews. "The space station is a failed dream...
...traveled by rail up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control, who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the SARS coronavirus. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily banning the sale of civets. For Yi this should have been a crowning moment...
...Railway up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out his fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control (CDC), who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the coronavirus that causes SARS. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily shutting down the wildlife markets and banning the sale of civets. For Yi, who attended medical school...
...When he brought those samples back to Hong Kong, a frightening picture started to emerge. Not only was he again finding the SARS coronavirus in a host of rodent species?in addition to the civet cat, he also detected the virus in hog badgers, Eurasian badgers, raccoon badgers and ferret badgers?he was astonished, when he did the genomic sequencing, to observe that these coronaviruses had actually mutated to become more similar to the SARS coronavirus samples taken from humans during the first outbreak last spring. All this confirmed that the disease that had infected humans was again at large...
...complies." Here comes another eyeball-to-eyeball encounter. Mind The Information Gap This week's World Summit on the Information Society, in Geneva, loftily aims to bridge the digital divide?that is if IT spats (who's in charge of issuing Internet domain names, for instance) don't hog the agenda. But do developed countries have that much to offer the digital economies of developing ones? "In the south, it's going to be wireless, more mobile and more affordable too," says Richard Fuchs of the International Development Research Centre. He also notes that "the information economy is moving east...