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...Pandemic Flu Seattle's King County could be struck at any time by an earthquake, tsunami or the eruption of nearby Mount Rainier. But the thing that has Eric Holdeman, director of the county's office of emergency management, really worried is the threat of a pandemic flu. "We expect to need 57,000 hospital beds," says Holdeman of a worst-case scenario. "We have 3,500. There's not enough ventilators, there's no vaccine, there's not enough Tamiflu...
...biggest basin lies well east of the Bay, in the broad delta formed by the convergence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. Among the most catastrophic consequences of a big earthquake in the Bay Area, says University of California at Davis geologist Jeffrey Mount, would be the failure of the delta's aging levee system, which protects not just farmland and residential areas but also the water supply for some 23 million people. Shaken hard enough, the foundations of the levees would crumple, and in a kind of hydrological chain reaction, brackish water from the Bay would surge inland...
With financial losses continuing to mount and market share continuing to fall, General Motors Corp. is hoping more than 35,000 blue-collar workers will accept an early retirment package and, as a result, help expedite the floundering company's much-needed restructuring. It also hopes the packages will help bail out its principal supplier, the bankrupt Delphi Corp. But as so often happens with GM's attempted comeback, the announcement raised as many questions as answers...
...reached base with a walk. In the fourth, Vance sent a single to center field that allowed Matt Rogers to score. Harvard would hold onto the 2-1 lead until the tying run crossed the plate in the seventh.With the score tied coming into the ninth, Harvard failed to mount an attack in the top half of the inning. In the bottom of the ninth, Javier Castellanos, who pitched 1.2 innings of solid relief, delivered a one-out walk to Kraig Binick, who promptly stole second. A single from shortstop MacMillan plated the winning run to give the Bears their...
...don’t know whether that will happen, but they certainly have it all.” For the Crimson, some of its best chances came early on in the game when it made quick counterattacks at the UNH net. Harvard never managed to mount a consistent pressure on offense, but a couple of stellar plays put some fear in the hearts of the Wildcats faithful and some hope in the hearts of the Crimson fans—who together totaled 2061 in attendance. Two minutes before Hitchcock scored, Harvard freshman Jenny Brine beat a couple of UNH defenders...