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...brain's shortcuts come with certain predictable biases. In experiments, people reliably overestimate the chances of something happening if they can vividly imagine it. If we see something new, we try to fit it into a box that we understand - for example, a box labeled "Mild: The Same as Regular Influenza." Or maybe, more cinematically, "Plague Invading the Heartland," or perhaps another one called "Media Hype." All those boxes contain parts of the story. None is quite right. (See pictures of soccer in the time of swine...
...this strain of H1N1 has proved blessedly mild. So far, at least, many people get it; not many die. But mild is a tricky word. "Mild, when you're talking about flu, can still be dangerous," says Michael Shaw, a microbiologist at the CDC who has been working with influenza for 30 years. "It may be mild in the majority of cases, but the more cases you have, the more chances you have of infecting someone for whom it will not be mild. There are lots of kids with asthma...
...pepperoni your only lunch will be gruyère cheese...for days...and days...and days. Of course, our specially prepared trail mix helped out in those in-between times, but by the second day, deprived of any fruit or veggies (and probably developing a mild case of scurvy), I would have bartered my first-born child for a piece of crystallized pineapple. When I returned to campus I had lost 5 pounds in as many days, and devoured citrus like a British sailor...
...best expectations are that it’s going to be a mild illness in most people, so I think that’s a pretty conservative thing to do,” Lipsitch said...
...targeted for his outspoken opinions. "[Kazmi] has been at the forefront of our government attempt to unify all the senior most Muslim leaders of this country who are all opposed to the militant viewpoint on Islam," says presidential spokesperson Farahnaz Ispahani. "He has been out there, he is a mild and soft-spoken man who has spoken out publicly about the sufi Islam that is the true Islam of Pakistan...