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...estimates are also less alarming than those provided - also by Lipsitch - to the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology last summer near the start of the pandemic. At the time, researchers had only patchy data on the number of people infected by, and seeking treatment for, the new flu. The initially bleak prediction of the impact of H1N1 - with up to 50% of the U.S. population becoming infected in the fall and winter of 2009, resulting in as many as 90,000 deaths - was based on modeling of previous pandemics. (See how not to get the H1N1...
...begun to talk more about the debt, admitting in an interview with Fox News that too much spending could yield a loss of confidence in the U.S. and a "double-dip recession." At Brookings, Obama copped to trying to "spend our way out of this recession in the near term" but also announced that "one of the central goals of this Administration is restoring fiscal responsibility...
Harvard took full advantage of the opportunity, when junior forward Liza Ryabkina took the puck at the left circle and fed it down low to classmate Kate Buesser, who was waiting at the near post. Buesser took the pass and redirected it past Garcia 15:44 into the game to tie the score...
...Pilot Captain Mark (Pitbull) McDowell, 26, and weapons-systems officer Captain Thomas (Lag) Gramith, 27, died in the first crash of an Air Force fighter in Afghanistan since the war began more than eight years ago. Coming near the end of a four-hour combat flight, the crash appears to have been the result of a series of steps, each insignificant in and of itself, but which in combination created a cascade of disaster...
...night of the crash, two F-15Es, which specialize in ground-attack missions, had spent close to three hours supporting grunts near the Pakistan border. But on their way back home to Bagram air base, they decided to practice high-angle strafing runs against 7-ft. dirt mounds in the middle of a dry lake bed. While they wouldn't actually fire their 20mm guns, the pilots had decided to practice one of the Air Force's most dangerous missions - diving toward the ground amid mountains on a dark night. Their heavy night-vision goggles, which work by amplifying existing...