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...ever played baseball for the Crimson. BB&N coach Rick Forestiere’s cannot remember memory two BB&N graduates ever playing on the same Harvard team, let alone two classmates. Klimkiewicz and Farkes will be starting for Harvard as freshmen, the former at third base and the latter at second...
...Saddam's last speech had invoked Arab grandeur, Iraqi patriotism and Islamic ideals, tapping into old dreams as Saddam cast himself as a latter-day Saladdin, the Muslim warrior who drove the Crusaders out of Jerusalem. The footage of his walkabout had likewise sought to portray him as the valiant Arab knight. The footage showed Iraqis mobbing Saddam, chanting his praises and bending to kiss his hand. As a pistol in a leather holster dangled from his belt, Saddam pumped his fist in a power salute and wiped away what might have been a tear...
...would have supported him in a more cautious, multilateral approach to disarming Saddam Hussein. There are two kinds of people who walk alone against the tide of majority opinion. One is brave and has enormous integrity. The other is mad and walks into disaster. Bush, I fear, is the latter kind. He has made our nation a pariah. KAREN SILVER New York City...
...will be the likelihood that the new virus is a cross-species transmission in which the virus has mutated from its animal carrier so that it can infect humans, who have no immunity from the alien invader. The most obvious examples of this are HIV and influenza, and the latter disease has disturbing parallels with SARS. The flu virus lives usually in the stomachs of waterfowl, and the two are co-adapted?the birds don't get sick. It is widely believed among virologists, however, that with the domestication of ducks in southern China 2,000-3,000 years...
...Professor Kennedy Shortridge of the University of Hong Kong has run blood tests on birds, animals and people in the territory, in Taiwan, in Jiangsu province and in the Pearl River Delta. Especially in the latter two places, he found farmers with antibodies suggesting exposure to every single type of flu that exists in other species. So it's just a matter of time before one of those types adapts to human beings and takes...