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...center of the ultramarathon movement, with up to 15,000 runners pounding through a choice of scores of events each year. But for those in search of roads less jogged, Asia is beginning to offer its own share of long marches?from the Lake Saroma 100-km run in northern Japan to China's Gobi March, a six-stage, 250-km painfest that locals call the "Race of No Return." But the best of them all, for combining suffering and scenic beauty, is probably the annual Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset?a 100-km, waterside race around spectacular Lake Khovsgol...
...most frightening aspect of avian flu has always been its astonishing virulence, but the human death rate in hard-hit northern Vietnam has fallen to 34% this year, down from almost 80% for the entire country in 2004. Good news? Not if you're an epidemiologist. Investigators for the World Health Organization (WHO) have raised concerns that even though the H5N1 bird-flu virus appears to be weakening, it may be adapting better to human beings?potentially opening the door to a flu pandemic...
...Researchers have found that as the fatality rate dropped in northern Vietnam, there has been an increase in the number of cases clustered close together and in the age of those infected?signs that the virus may be finding more efficient ways to infect people, including human-to-human transmission, the principal barrier to a pandemic. The falling death rate could mean that this process of adaptation is accelerating. "In gaining the ability to go from one person to another, a virus may well lose its virulence," says Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit...
...been given a new mandate; however there have been a few hitches - George Galloway, anyone? Considering the result that the Liberal Democrats received was their best since 1922 under Lloyd George, I believe the case for proportional representation in England - as it has been enacted in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - has become stronger. Joshua Selig Dorset, England Show of Force I was delighted with your piece on the highly anticipated third episode of Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith [May 9]. It reminded readers that milestones in entertainment can be just as historic as the political news that swamps...
...center of the ultramarathon movement, with up to 15,000 runners pounding through a choice of scores of events each year. But for those in search of roads less jogged, Asia is beginning to offer its own share of long marches - from the Lake Saroma 100-km run in northern Japan to China's Gobi March, a six-stage, 250-km painfest that locals call the "Race of No Return." But the best of them all, for combining suffering and scenic beauty, is probably the annual Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset - a 100-km, waterside race around spectacular Lake Khovsgol...