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...that H5N1 will even be the bug in question. In 1918 the Spanish flu infected 20% of the world's population and killed 40 million people (a mortality rate of 2.5%), and 550,000 of those deaths were in the U.S. What the new study illuminates is the small print behind that big number: some cities got hit much harder than others, and there's a lot to be learned from the way they each responded to the same threat...
...It’s the culture’s thumb print in our minds,” Green said. “If you’re raised in this country in a certain social group, with certain media, your mind is conditioned in a certain way. You may be able to override that conditioning, but the bottom line is that those subconscious connections are very deep in our minds, whether we want them to be there...
...Where money for projects has not been found, we will print it.' ROBERT MUGABE, President of Zimbabwe, on the government's plan to mint more cash for municipal improvements despite the country's annual inflation rate of at least...
...catwalk. The Progressive Bag Alliance, which represents major plastic-bag makers, maintains that bags aren't the problem. Littering is. In an attempt to turn the tables on the eco-chic movement, the alliance has begun an unsubtle anti-Hindmarch campaign by emblazoning their signature product--using a bubble print strikingly similar to the one on her popular tote--with a defiant message: I AM A PLASTIC BAG, AND I AM 100% RECYCLABLE...
...important pieces of legislation to be put forward in several decades of reform: the revised law on property ownership. Pushed through despite objections from old-line conservatives, the law for the first time gave equal weight to both state- and private-ownership rights. But a look at the fine print shows that the law only protects things dear to the rising middle class: real estate, cars, stock-market assets. Farmers, on the other hand, will still be unable to purchase their land and instead will be forced to lease plots from the government...