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...party kicked off at the Charles last Sunday with a youth forum on voting called “The Power of One,” hosted by Cambridge’s vice-mayor Marjorie Decker and Lethal Weapon star Danny Glover. It continued at the Clintons’ private bash on Monday night at the Noir Bar in the hotel lobby...
...tear us apart? The answer, alas, is that this President has decided it will help him politically to tear us apart. His base is restless over government spending and Iraq, and this is a means to placate and energize it. If that means turning a tiny minority into a lethal threat to civilization, so be it. If that minority's sole crime is to seek to live in fidelity, uphold the family, support responsibility, then that also is beside the point. In this battle, the President has shown his true colors. He is a divider, not a uniter...
...forced to quit for the JIC's errors, by what logic can Blair remain? With WMD unlikely ever to be unearthed, Downing Street remains uneasy that Butler, the canny mandarin, has subtly set in motion forces that could, in ways now unforeseen, still prove lethal...
...last week by scientists at the University of Hong Kong and Shantou University shows that the H5N1 virus has evolved rapidly since it first infected humans in Hong Kong in 1997, killing six. The result was the powerful strain of H5N1 that caused this winter's unusually widespread and lethal outbreak. Another recent study shows that the latest strains of the virus proved the most deadly to lab mice-raising worries that H5N1 is also becoming increasingly dangerous to humans...
...real fear is that H5N1 could crossbreed with a standard human-flu virus to create a highly lethal, highly contagious strain with the potential to cause a global flu pandemic. Professor Yi Guan of the University of Hong Kong, the lead researcher on the Nature paper, worries that H5N1 is evolving so fast that it may gain the ability to infect humans by mutating on its own, without mixing with a human virus, much as SARS did. Yi says the latest outbreaks show that the virus has become endemic to the region, with a difficult-to-eradicate foothold in migratory...