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...Critics of the verdict - dubbed the "Hadschi Halef Omar ban" by the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, in reference to a character invented by the popular adventure-story writer Karl May called Hadschi Halef Omar Ben Hadschi Abul Abbas Ibn Hadschi Dawuhd al Gossarah - say it does not necessarily prevent long names, since it applies only to names conjoined by a hyphen. A name like Schulze zur Wiesche-Meyer auf der Heide would still be allowed, notes Götz, even though it's seven words long...
...global panic subsides, scientists will focus on figuring out how to ward off the next emerging disease before it lands on our doorstep. "Now is the time to take the actions needed to prevent this," says Nathan Wolfe, director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, which looks for new pathogens emerging from wildlife. One way to start would be to trace how, when and where the H1N1 virus emerged from pigs into people (or vice versa - over the weekend, Canada confirmed reports that a swine worker in Alberta passed the H1N1 virus to pigs). The H1N1 virus contains human, avian...
...published paper in Science that the U.S. alone has imported more than 1.5 billion live animals since 2000, the majority of which undergo no testing for pathogens before or after shipment. At the height of the H1N1 scare last week, many Americans wanted stronger surveillance at the borders to prevent the spread of new diseases by foreign travelers - but there has been comparatively little attention paid to the live-wildlife trade. "There's a backdoor open just waiting for new pathogens to walk in," says Daszak...
...shaping the brain," says Geraldine Dawson, a leading autism researcher and the chief scientific officer of the advocacy group Autism Speaks. "What we see in autism may be partly the result of not engaging with the social environment. So if you engage the baby through an intervention, you might prevent or at least reduce the development of autism symptoms." (See more about autism...
...stressed by social activity. The intervention is playful in spirit, says Dawson, adding, "Parents get very confident and are able to learn this quickly." The hope, she says, is that for some significant portion of children at risk, "we can begin before the full autism syndrome is present and prevent it from emerging...