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...Life, if you're a bacterium or virus, boils down to this: finding a pristine human home to provide for your every need, from food and nutrients to shelter against biological storms. As a microbial drifter, you can literally travel the world, hopping from host to host when the opportunity presents itself or when conditions at your temporary residence start heading south. There's no worry about taking along life's necessities either-viruses in particular are adept at traveling light; incapable of reproducing on their own, they think nothing of co-opting the reproductive machinery of their cellular sponsors...
...quake hit just where the vast Sichuan plain meets the foothills of the Himalayas, the geographical and ethnic boundary separating China from Tibet - where Chinese troops put down bloody protests against Beijing's rule in March, sparking global protests that sullied China's image as it prepared to host the Olympic Games in August. Others gloomily point to a series of other recent tragedies - destructively cold snowstorms, an outbreak of disease that left dozens of children dead, a train accident that killed 72 - as evidence of some kind of heavenly displeasure...
...show's recipe is familiar: Take one wacky host and put him on camera with a handful of cuddly, brightly colored monsters. Cue some funky animation and catchy songs, and kids not only brush their teeth but dance while doing...
...coercive humanitarian intervention in Burma wouldn't be without precedent: the U.S. funded and helped coordinate the delivery of aid without the host governments' consent during the wars in Bosnia and southern Sudan. Nor would it be illegal: according to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1674, member states have a "responsibility to protect" populations from genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, if their own governments fail to do so (or are responsible for committing the crimes themselves). Burma's crisis--hundreds of thousands of innocents at risk of death because of their rulers' willful neglect--easily meets that standard...
...rolled back or was not fully implemented. Deforestation is on the rise again, and much of those 12 million hectares are protected only on paper. Lula overruled her on the big issues of the day, from his embrace of nuclear power, to the authorization of GM foods, to a host of other infrastructure projects outlined in his government's ambitious Growth Acceleration Program...