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...first human outbreak of BIRD FLU in Hong Kong sounded a warning for the future. So far, the new virus has shown no evidence of reassortment. The fact that the outbreak happened before Hong Kong's regular flu season reduced opportunities for reassortment, as did the prompt slaughter of the chickens. What researchers fear most is that someone infected with a common flu strain will also become infected with H5, and thus become an inadvertent mixing chamber for the production of a wholly new virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...kept things organized. According to psychologist Kathleen Nadeau of the Chesapeake ADHD Center of Maryland, in Silver Spring, retirement leaves some individuals "swimming in murky water." Even downsizing from a house to an apartment, with all the attendant decisions about what to keep and what to throw out, may prompt seniors to seek therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Jumbled Up | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

PREDICTOR Psychic ''Mystic Meg'' in the supermarket tabloid Globe PREDICTION Fear of disease will prompt Madonna to remarry Sean Penn and become ''the new Julie Andrews of the film world.'' WHAT HAPPENED Sean Penn and Robin Wright had their second child. Madonna starred in Body of Evidence, an S&M bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEER SUCKERS | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Lichauco has compiled a list of names by advertising on house e-mail lists, but said she thinks she will need more support to prompt Cingular...

Author: By Emily J. Nelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Aims For Better Quad Cell Service | 9/27/2005 | See Source »

...were about to go online. The rotation of the earth and the rhythmic movements of the masses didn?t matter when I wrote for magazines, but I was working at the speed of light now, even if I wasn?t thinking at it. Knowing that an empty website would prompt a hundred nasty e-mails, I blazed through a blog entry about the state of journalism, repeating arguments that I?d made at dinner parties and illustrating them with stories that I?d rehearsed in barrooms. I finished the piece in twenty minutes, a record, and twenty minutes later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking With Tradition | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

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