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...Lebanon has raised doubts on all sides. Is Assad really interested in a peace agreement? If so, shouldn't he being keeping Lebanon quiet to avoid causing problems for Peres, who is more interested in peace treaties than opposition candidate Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist Likud? Does this outbreak mean, as Israeli Cabinet minister Yossi Beilin suggested in Washington last week, that Assad is not really committed to a negotiated agreement...
Crossan and other liberal Jesus scholars, he believed, were exploring avenues "subtly contemptuous of the convictions of faith." As long as the debate had been quarantined in the corridors of the academy, he had held his peace. The advent of the Jesus Seminar, however, marked a major outbreak of what Johnson considered a dangerous contagion. "Americans generally have an abysmal level of knowledge of the Bible," he says. "In this world of mass ignorance, to have headlines proclaim that this or that fact about [Jesus] has been declared untrue by supposedly scientific inquiry has the effect of gospel. There...
...Such investigation, in conjunction with molecular diagnostics, may enable early identification of sources of infection and improved outbreak control," he added
Scientists had suspected that the disease, which killed 245 in the Zairian town of Kikwit last year, was transmitted to humans from chimpanzees or other forest creatures. Thanks to the latest outbreak, that theory now looks pretty solid. But where is the virus coming from? Chimps seem to be as susceptible as people to the pathogen, so it's unlikely that they can harbor it for long periods of time...
After the Kikwit outbreak, health officials stepped up the search for the virus' natural reservoir--an animal that can house the microbe and not suffer ill effects, or at least not fatal ones. Last June, U.S. researchers collected thousands of tissue samples from insects and small animals living around Kikwit. But tests on the specimens at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have come up empty...