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...protect yourself? The people most at risk are those who work with live infected poultry. If you stay away from chicken farms and live-bird markets in areas where avian flu is rife, the odds of infection are minimal...
...Chul Soo chose to flee without his North Korean sons, daughters and grandchildren. (He insists on using a pseudonym to protect them.) He hopes they can join him one day. But even after returning home after five decades as a prisoner, his family is sundered by a long...
Sistani's aides say his decision to speak out against the U.S. caucus plan was motivated not by political ambition but by his perception that the Governing Council was not defending the rights of Iraqis and by a desire to protect the interests of Iraqi Shi'ites. In an interview with TIME in Qum, Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who has spent 15 years under house arrest for criticizing Iran's ruling mullahs for abuse of office, said that Sistani is acting for the good of Iraq. "If there should be a stable government, it is best that...
Europe has been able to live with and protect itself against mad-cow disease, which seems to be manageable if farmers and slaughterhouses are willing to test cattle before slaughter. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization encourages the testing of all slaughter cattle for mad-cow disease, but since this is a U.N. agency, I guess the U.S. won't consider its advice. MARKUS G. SCHRIBER Geneva...
...vowed to enforce an ordinance passed in 2000 requiring that an institution with at least 50 members provide same-sex benefits if it rents the space out for public functions, as Druid Hills does. A group of Republican state legislators plan to introduce a bill this week that would protect the club against the city's ordinance, on the premise that state law sanctions marriage only between a man and a woman...