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...Europe's doorstep, learning from Thailand's methods could help other countries keep the disease under control. Step 1 is early detection. Many of Thailand's 250 million chickens live in small household farms scattered throughout the country. Official surveillance could easily miss those birds, but a broad network of community health volunteers - ordinary Thais like Rampai - has been enlisted to look for possible outbreaks. The volunteers disseminate information about the disease and its symptoms to villagers who normally have little contact with doctors or government officials, let alone space-suited flu teams. In addition, the Thai government has made...
...labs in the field of pharmaceutical research, which Heller cited as “one of the strongest intersections between [biology and chemistry].”Students are also able to take advantage of an unusual number of resources outside of class, including weekly review sessions and a study network facilitated by older undergraduates.For students who wish to go into further depth about course subjects, professors periodically hold “stretch sessions,” optional lectures that introduce topics beyond the scope of the course. Students enrolled in the course also praise the lecture notes available online after...
...case that was too much trouble for the journalists, the firm also e-mailed out a statement from the Judicial Confirmation Network calling "for the abuse to stop." Questioning continued into the evening. Although aides said they still think the hearing will end Thursday, Specter said he had requests from senators for Friday and Saturday sessions. "I told both of those requesters to stand by," the chairman said...
...Russia, chairs the “corporation.” In the last months, this behemoth bought, in a throwback to good ol’ Soviet times, curious assets to “complete its portfolio”: Izvestia, a money-losing newspaper, and NTV, a leading TV network formerly owned by one of Putin’s rapidly vanishing rivals. This cold New Year, the company was used for a 21st-century taste of realpolitik...
...Donaldson saw items ranging from a 1777 letter by George Washington authorizing a network of spies in New York City to a latter-day camera so tiny that it is concealed in a button. "I grew up in the cold war, where we sat under our desks in school during drills and hoped that we wouldn't be bombed," she says. "The Spy Museum brought that time in my life back to me in full, living color." Visitors can live out their Mission: Impossible fantasies by selecting an undercover persona-complete with false name, age and other traits-upon entering...