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...effective antiviral treatments before human-to-human transmission takes off. In Turkey, meanwhile, the virus may already be endemic: a permanent presence that would constantly threaten to invade Europe in the future. Even if everyone has learned the lessons of previous health and food-safety crises such as mad-cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease, avian flu defies traditional responses. Wild birds don't stop for quarantine controls, and they don't recognize borders...
Miller is also skiing's mad scientist. There couldn't possibly be anyone who has thought more about what it takes to win a ski race. He has contemplated every aspect of the sport, whether it's boot design, the way your nerves should fire during a turn or even how the World Cup tour should operate. "I simply think things through, and I look at problems," he told TIME. "One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts...
Karr isn't the only memoir writer who's mad as hell. Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, says she has been losing sleep over it. "What he did is wrong on so many levels, and I'm outraged by it," she fumes. "He lied. Writing a memoir, especially one like he was supposed to have done--or one like I did--is a very personal thing. You sit down, and you write about your innermost feelings and your experiences, and you share them with your readers. When it succeeds, it's a very intimate exchange...
...nature occur to them, whereas in New Orleans, a lot of people think it’s not an act of nature, it’s an act of bureaucratic inefficiency,” he said. “There’s a lot of people who are mad at the system for what happened in New Orleans, whereas in Mississippi, people are mad at God.”The results from the study will be available publicly on an HMS website. The site will include not only the data that will be shown to policymakers, but also...
...Tournament team at the Frozen Four in her sophomore campaign, Cahow earned an invite to the Team USA National Festival this summer and from there a spot on the squad that conducted a pre-Olympic tour this fall. Then, on Dec. 27 at the Mall of America in hockey-mad Minnesota, Cahow received final confirmation that she would don the red, white, and blue and go for gold in Turin.And all this happening to a young woman just 20 years of age. When Cahow returns to campus next fall, she’ll join my graduating class?...