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LONDON: The biggest family business in the world just became an equal opportunity employer. Queen Elizabeth II agreed Friday that the British throne should pass to the eldest child, regardless of sex -- sweeping aside the millenia-old tradition of primogeniture, in which sons always get first claim on the crown. Princes Charles and William can breath easy, because this makes no change to the line of succession -- they're both firstborn anyway. What this does do, however, is slap a huge royal seal on efforts to modernise the monarchy in the wake of Diana's death...
...routine day. Dr. Wilina Lim, chief virologist with the Hong Kong Department of Health, was sorting through the usual load of blood and tissue specimens sent to her laboratory from nearby hospitals, typically about 80 a day. On this particular day--Tuesday, May 20, 1997--one specimen came from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon, at the far side of Victoria Harbor, where a three-year-old boy had been admitted with what turned out to be a fatal respiratory illness. Her lab quickly determined that the infectious agent was some type of Influenza A, one of two broad classes...
...Queen Elizabeth Hospital sent Lim a specimen from a 54-year-old male who had developed a fever and a cough and soon had to be admitted, apparently suffering from pneumonia. Four days later, Lim's lab succeeded in growing a virus extracted from his specimens. The next day, the patient died. Lim tested the virus with her H5 reagents. Again, a positive...
...virology lab got its usual load of new specimens to analyze, including one from a two-year-old boy admitted the day before to Queen Mary Hospital. Her lab applied the ordinary WHO reagents for H3 and H1, but just as in May, got no reaction. This time Lim tried an H5 reagent supplied by the CDC. And got a positive reading...
...word about discussions with the Office of the Independent Counsel. No comment. No comment. I kept asking Nate, How do the reporters know this stuff? The Office of the Independent Counsel is leaking it, said Nate. Meanwhile, Starr's people kept talking to us, but instead of "queen for a day" privileges, they wanted "queen for a month." And they wanted a polygraph test. What do we get in exchange besides your goodwill? I asked. They said they'd decide that later...