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...victims were probably infected through contact with chickens while visiting China's Fujian province, and that until H5N1 is able to pass from one human to another, the threat of epidemic is miniscule. But if a patient with human flu contracted the avian variety, it could spawn a lethal genetic hybrid. "If it gets as transmittable as human-to-human flu viruses, we are basically looking at a pandemic," says Dr. Malik Peiris, a University of Hong Kong microbiologist. The 1997 outbreak came in the fall; "We were lucky," says Dr. Paul K.S. Chan, a microbiologist with Chinese University...
...sheer scariness, the most grim talk came from Raymond Zilinskas, an expert in bioterrorism at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. In chilling detail, he described the efforts of Soviet scientists at the height of the Cold War to develop lethal germs, such as variations of anthrax and the smallpox virus, that could be carried to targets almost anywhere on Earth by ballistic missile. While these programs have presumably long since been cancelled, he foresaw no real defense against such bioweapons, other than stronger international conventions. That's something the Bush administration has resolutely opposed, he said...
...Harvard first-years. Over the next two years, they slowly pieced together the rest of the lineup: Dr. ATM (Nicholas Britell ’03-’04), PK-1 (Pete Kennedy ’03), percussionist Cool Hand Luke (Luke White ’03), bassist Lethal D (Berklee College of Music senior Dave Sherman), The Cuban Revolution (Alan Wilkis ’04) and Benny from the ’Burbs (Northeastern University senior Benjamin Peterson...
Right now, we are faced with a choice. We can confront the evil before us or to allow it to grow. The possibility that Iraq or North Korea could acquire nuclear or highly lethal chemical weapons poses a deadly threat to their peoples, their regions and the world. The free peoples of the world, especially the French, Germans and Russians, need to fall in behind the United States to rid the Earth of its worst dictators. Just ask yourself, whose beliefs do you think will begin to build lasting peace, and whose will result in a more destructive...
...taking my business elsewhere. This ain't the city I was born in," writes a visitor to the popular Sod-U-Ken website. Some portion of the complaints are legitimate. After decades of underfunding and neglect, Greater London's public transit system is often late and sometimes lethal, leaving many commuters with few options. The profits from the new charge will be used to rehabilitate the system, but that will take time. Many Londoners find it hard to believe that the capital's transit authority can manage such a massive scheme; indeed, the payment site, www.cclondon.com, has already crashed multiple...