Word: milles
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Just ask investment banker Mark Ragsdale and his wife Leslie, a lawyer, who last October bought a beautiful two-story house north of San Francisco in Mill Valley, up a road that wound through 100-ft. redwoods and past a splashing stream. Then the winter rains started. Toward the end of January, the couple's driveway had started to heave. A week later, the house began to torque and twist so that windows cracked and doors hung askew. "You'd better get out," city inspectors advised. Within two hours, the Ragsdales and two dozen friends started filing...
...50th anniversary of its independence, a celebratory slew of printed matter has materialized assessing, among other facets of the Subcontinent, the state of the Indian state. Tomorrow's announcement of the results of the country's three-week-long general elections will provide ever more grist for the mill. At issue is how a nation of mind-boggling diversities will pursue its national project and how that national project should be defined...
...intrigued but not terribly concerned. While she did not often receive flu viruses that resisted identification, it did happen. She retested the virus and again got no reaction. A month later, she forwarded samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and to England's Mill Hill, two laboratories in the top tier of a quiet but elaborate global surveillance network that tracks changes in the world's flu viruses. Almost as an afterthought, Lim sent a sample to Jan De Jong, a virologist at the Dutch National Institute of Health and the Environment who liked...
...Albert Osterhaus, chairman of the virology department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where virologist Eric Claas had analyzed the suspect virus using a panel of reagents derived from flu strains isolated and maintained by Webster. Claas had first determined that the virus was H5N1, well before the CDC and Mill Hill. At the outset even he did not believe it. An H5 infection in humans was unheard of. He too assumed the H5 was a contaminant...
...retain a clear sense of Dickens' novel will encounter a trove of subtle allusions, not just to the 19th century author's life and works but also to the predatory relationship between an inventor of tales and the real-life subjects who find themselves grist for this creative mill...