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...lived through it even knew it occurred. Still, it killed 34,000 Americans. The 1918 pandemic was far more lethal. It killed 675,000 Americans at a time when the U.S. population was 100 million. Fifty million to 100 million people perished worldwide in the 1918 pandemic, according to Nobel laureate F. Macfarlane Burnet. The flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years. The difference in the death toll between 1918 and 1968 had little to do with such medical advances as antibiotics for secondary bacterial infections. The 1968 virus was simply much less...
...DANBOLT MJOES, Norwegian Nobel Committee chair, denying that the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, was a dig at the U.S. over the war in Iraq...
GREGG MILLER, on winning the Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine from humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research. He created fake testicles that have been implanted in some 150,000 neutered animals...
Coming at a moment when his work puts him at the fulcrum of an international showdown between the West and Iran, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei on Friday welcomed his Nobel Peace Prize award as a "shot in the arm." ElBaradei shared the 2005 award with the organization he heads up, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog responsible for policing the nuclear programs of signatories to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty...
...pattern of deception over aspects of its program. Still, the U.S. has had to accept that like the NPT itself, ElBaradei may be as good as it gets in terms of a universally accepted nuclear policeman. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was among the first to congratulate the new Nobel laureate by phone...