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...disease will affect human health"?even though 12 patients had already turned up at the National Institute of Pediatrics with an "unusual" virus, according to hospital director Dr. Nguyen Thanh Liem. Even more worrying, it now appears that there were mass chicken die-offs in Vinh Phuc province in northern Vietnam as early as last July, six months before the government officially acknowledged the emergence of avian flu. Giapfa Comfeed Vietnam Ltd., a poultry company in Vinh Phuc's Tam Duong district, told TIME that 20,000 of its chickens died with symptoms correlating with avian flu. The company says...
...number of such communities. By 2006 new retirement communities will have sprouted up alongside at least six major colleges and universities, including the University of Texas, UC Davis, Purdue, Stanford, Denison, Penn State and the University of Florida. The Stanford center, called the Classic Residence by Hyatt, in northern California won't open until May 2005, but 305 of the 388 units have already been sold. Starting at $600,000 a unit, prices rise to $3.9 million for a 4,200-sq.-ft. three-bedroom apartment...
...confirmed in larger trials, they may signal an exciting new approach in fighting cardiovascular disease, America's leading cause of death. "It" is a genetically rare type of HDL, or "good" cholesterol, dubbed ApoA-1 Milano. First identified 30 years ago in a small group of people living in northern Italy, this super HDL is even more protective against heart disease than regular HDL. In a study released this past fall, researchers injected a synthetic version of ApoA-1 Milano into 47 patients and found that unlike drugs that merely slow the dangerous buildup of plaque in the arteries, super...
...Rewarding Growth Police in northern India are being offered an extra 50 cents per month to sport a moustache, after research showed that officers with the facial hair were taken more seriously...
...Similarly unclear is the extent to which G.M.I.P.'s members, estimated to number more than 150, have received assistance from local Islamic radicals in northern Malaysia or from JI and al-Qaeda. Thai officials suspect the professionalism of G.M.I.P.'s latest attacks suggests that they have received training from foreign militants. But Andrew Tan, a terrorism expert at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, argues that the recent violence is most likely a local affair: "This is just the latest in a long line of bombings, assassinations, arms robberies and school burnings that have been going on since...