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...conclusions now will be premature, because we still don't know what we're looking at. Experts predict we'll eventually begin to see fewer new cases in Mexico, as lab results separate real swine-flu infections from normal respiratory disease. Meanwhile, the anticipation of more cases and deaths in the U.S. has already been begun to be borne out. As the CDC's Besser himself has pointed out, swine flu is going to be a marathon, not a sprint - and we've only just gotten started...
Lawrence H. Diller is on the clinical faculty of the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of Running on Ritalin and The Last Normal Child...
...This year I wrote my senior thesis on those cages. What struck me most forcefully was how the horrific has become normal. Last week, a pig factory farm in Shuyer County, Illinois, burnt down. The owners had economized by neither installing a sprinkler system nor a night watchman who could release the pigs. In the ensuing blaze, 11,000 pigs were burnt alive, many struggling frantically to escape their cages—firefighters recalled the horrific squeals they heard. Yet nothing changed. The owners promptly claimed insurance and will soon rebuild their factory farm...
...inch, two dimensional representation of a human face just as much as the next person, but can someone please tell me the purpose of the window in the corner where I can see myself? I don’t set up a mirror to watch myself during normal conversations, so why should I during a video chat? I don’t like it when intruders pop into the image on the other end, just to say “Hi!” or wave and remark how cool video chatting is because they can see themselves wave...
...actually had the virus, as tests have now shown. Local authorities had raised alarm bells about a potent outbreak of flu in the boy's village, La Gloria, but the federal government had not reported the development to the World Health Organization. Officials considered the child's illness "normal," having occurred during the flu season...