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...government announced on Monday that restaurants in the capital city would reopen by May 6, with churches and museums following soon afterward. In the U.S., where the CDC has confirmed 286 cases of H1N1 in nearly every state, health officials noted that the illness remained mild. Still, officials point out the need to maintain strict surveillance for new cases, in the U.S. and especially in countries in the southern hemisphere, where flu season is about to begin. (See the top five swine...
...Mexico, you might think about trying to contain it in that setting. Even that's very optimistic, though, given how easily influenza spreads from person to person. Once it reaches an urban environment in any country, your ability to contain it is pretty much nil. But your other point that countries need to beef up their public health capabilities around the world - definitely. We as a global community are only as strong as our weakest link...
...These questions are complex and echo in many places around the globe where non-state actors control territory: with the Zapatistas in Mexico, the FARC in Colombia, and the Maoists in Nepal. Although the groups may be condemned terrorists, there comes a point when one wonders whether adopting absolutist “us vs. them” rhetoric is worth...
...launch of this comparative-religion site comes on the heels of a study released last week that found people in the U.S. switch their religious affiliations more than previously thought. Half of Americans have changed religions at some point in their lives, according to the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, and the large majority did so by the age of 26 - the perfect audience for online programming...
...with those parties barred from running in the last election, this is the first time in modern history that there are no pro-ETA groups in parliament. That fact, coupled with the knowledge that ETA is at what is widely considered to be its weakest point in history, may enable López to capitalize on new talk of a negotiated peace. "Sooner or later, we're going to achieve what all of us - nationalist or non-nationalist - want, which is that things calm down in the Basque Country," says Landaburu, himself a victim of ETA's terrorism. "Maybe this...