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...team of scientists from the U.S., Indonesia and Japan, led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, combined a strain of the deadly H5N1 avian virus with strains of H3N2 human seasonal flu, creating 254 new, mutated viruses. By injecting them in lab mice, researchers found that some of the hybrid viruses were both deadly (like bird flu) and transmissible (like seasonal human flu) - the kind of genetically mutated superflu viruses that experts have been warning about for decades. (See how to prevent illness...
...world," says Kalum Iverson, 33, an oil company account manager from Langley, B.C. He's also driving around dignitaries. "I didn't want to miss out." Iverson remembers waking up in the middle of the night during the 1998 Olympics to watch the hockey games being broadcast from Nagano, Japan. Since then, he has wanted to be part of the Olympics in any capacity. (See the top 10 worst figure-skating costumes...
Sports-shoe manufacturers would do well to take a lesson from the old rickshaw runners (called jiin-riki) in Japan. They wore tabis, or mittens for the feet, with treaded rubber soles, which provided protection against stones, glass and nails in the road, as well as traction on ice or in mud. The snug fabric portion provided support and prevented chafing. Most modern sport shoes are too heavy and become uncomfortably hot, causing the feet to swell...
...stuff mess with you." He adds, "You need to feel lots of air in your body, light." He will wait on his choice of surfboard until the morning of the contest, when he sees the size and direction of the massive Pacific swells calved from a storm off northern Japan...
...addition to living in a savanna in northern Tanzania, the two will also spend about two weeks at a conference in Japan, where Wrangham has a speaking engagement. Later, they will travel to Uganda, where Ross is the founder and executive director of the non-profit Kasiisi Project, which aids Ugandan education...