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...raise animals. Seven to nine chickens crammed into a cage the size of a microwave oven is a virus time bomb waiting to explode. Caged chickens stand in their own feces and are never able to stretch their wings. Many have been debeaked, and some have chronic pain and infections. We should ban the inhumane standards of factory farming. I believe that avian flu is the quiet revenge of those millions of chickens, ducks and geese we torture before they reach our plates. Marcela Donato Thornhill, Canada...
...Farmer does checkups on AIDS patients after their first few weeks on ARVs. Hadija, 11, pretty in a pink dress, has gained nearly 7 lbs.; she shyly admits that her diarrhea has cleared up. Clementine, 35, a genocide widow with two children, has gained 9 lbs. but complains that pain from shingles makes it hard for her to work. Damascene, 14, has put on an astonishing 22 lbs., but Farmer senses that something's wrong; the boy's belly is distended with fluid. He gives the accompagnateur 2,000 francs (about $4) for transportation to return for further tests...
...Comedy is tragedy plus time. These funny people have a lifetime of things to say and are enough distance away from any pain to talk about it," says Judy Carter, a Los Angeles comic, comedy teacher and author of Comedy Bible: From Stand-Up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide...
...This is a prescription for brand-name drug manufacturers to earn greater profits at the expense of low-income consumers," charges Democratic senator Jay Rockefeller. But aides for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Finance Committee chairman Charles Grassley insist the generic drug companies are exaggerating the pain they'll feel from the expanded discount. They add that the deficit reduction bill, which the full Senate will consider this week, has other sweeteners for the generics companies...
People give for all kinds of reasons. We give out of duty, pity, love or fear. The shrinking world crowds us closer to pain--and risk; SARS began in Asia but caught a flight to Canada and killed people there. If avian flu, now hitchhiking through Europe, migrates to Africa--where there is neither the money nor the medical infrastructure to track it, much less trap it--the already scary scenarios suddenly get even scarier. The "we're safe, it's far away" illusion has died; the sense of being stalked by a disease is now felt in rich countries...