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...illegal Mexican immigrants. "I can't say for certain how the data would have been different in the pre-Lou Dobbs or Glenn Beck era," says Timberlake, "but it seems we're seeing the reflection of the general debate." (See pictures of the fence between the U.S. and Mexico...
...violence killed 32 inmates and 11 guards. (Decades later, New York State awarded millions in damages to surviving inmates who said they were mistreated following the insurrection as well as to the families of slain employees.) Other infamous prison disturbances include a particularly gruesome 1980 uprising in New Mexico that claimed 33 inmate lives (some of the prisoners were mutilated with blowtorches) and an 11-day siege in 1993 at a maximum-security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, in which a guard was killed...
...April 25, Rod Daniels, the deputy director of the World Influenza Centre in London, was at a meeting in Germany when he received a call from a co-worker: an influenza outbreak had been reported in Mexico and the first samples of the virus were on their way to London for examination. A virologist who has studied flu for more than 30 years, Daniels knew exactly what he was looking for. Influenza A viruses - the type that can cause pandemics - use a protein called hemagglutinin to bind to the cells of their animal hosts. When a virus jumps from animals...
...about how lethal and contagious a pandemic will be. But they are only guesses. While exhaustive, 21st century virology can explain and illustrate what's already happened - and help health officials react - the only valid, real-time laboratory is the human population itself. (See pictures of swine flu hitting Mexico...
...suspected drug smugglers and illegal immigrants. He was the first member of the border patrol to be shot and killed in the line of duty in more than a decade. The murder prompted a massive multiagency manhunt involving federal, state and Mexican law enforcement. But while authorities in Mexico have detained five suspects, an FBI spokesman says the case--one that highlights the increasing risk of Mexican drug violence surging north of the border--is still considered unsolved...