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...disastrous pandemic. A strain of avian flu called H5N1 leaped the species barrier and infected 18 people, killing six, before the slaughter of the city's 1.4 million chickens helped stop the spread. Last week, alarm bells rang anew when a local 33-year-old man and his nine-year-old son contracted a similar virus. The father died of pneumonia Feb. 17, while the son remains in stable condition. Officials say the victims were probably infected through contact with chickens while visiting China's Fujian province, and that until H5N1 is able to pass from one human to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bird Flu Hatches in China | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...attend a university like Harvard, that's the cream of the crop," he added, explaining that his nine-year-old son. Ray Jr., has "already decided to come here...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Sugar Ray's Lecture Tour: Hard Work, Smooth Style | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

...Deepali was the first victim, killed on July 26. Eight more deaths followed: a nine-year-old, a five-year-old and a 35-year-old woman in August, a six-year-old, a 13-year-old and a 22-year-old in September and a seven-year-old and a five-year-old in November. Four others survived maulings. The number and frequency of the attacks left experts at a loss. While India is used to the occasional man-killer, until now such incidents were largely explained by human trespass on an animal's hunting ground or ferociously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silent Scream | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...little nine-year-old came to her funeral because he loved my mother so much,” said Colmes’ daughter, Francia C. Davis...

Author: By Jaquelyn M. Scharnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Teacher, Harvard Benefactor Dies at 81 | 10/9/2002 | See Source »

...nine-year-old, music practice can be a drag, meaning parents typically have to wield the baton, if not the whip. Anoushka Shankar was no exception when it came to shirking homework on the special miniature sitar her folks had made for her when she was that age. "They would sit me down periodically and say 'You don't have to do this. But if you do it, you need to be serious about it,' " she says. Anoushka Shankar became so serious that by the time she was 13 she was performing alongside her father, whose name is synonymous with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Practice Makes Perfect | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

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