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...virus. Historically, this virus has wreaked havoc mainly on poultry. Among chickens, the disease manifests itself as a hemorrhagic fever, turning a pen of healthy birds into a bloody mass of goop and feathers within 24 hours. Since the 1960s, each reported appearance of the disease has drawn a rapid response from international health officials concerned more about the potential for human infection than the loss of a few feathered friends...
From his first meeting with the President, O'Neill found Bush unengaged and inscrutable, an inside account far different from the shiny White House brochure version of an unfailing leader questioning aides with rapid-fire intensity. The two met one-on-one almost every week, but O'Neill says he had trouble divining his boss's goals and ideas. Bush was a blank slate rarely asking questions or issuing orders, unlike Nixon and Ford, for whom O'Neill also worked. "I wondered from the first, if the President didn't know the questions to ask," O'Neill says...
...regardless of what is decided in New Delhi or Islamabad. Between 35,000 people (India's figure) and 70,000 (Pakistan's figure) have died in the violence since 1989, largely in the Kashmiri valley. Moderate Kashmiris warn that the past few years in the valley have seen a rapid spread of the hard-line Islamic faith of Wahhabism?the chosen creed of Osama bin Laden, among others?in an area previously dominated by the moderate Sufi tradition. Yasin Malik, 38, a former militant commander who now campaigns for peace and independence, warns that Kashmir's latest generation of militants...
...pretty paltry by comparison. The Internet is swiftly becoming the primary repository of the bulk of human information. Search is the way we get at that information, and companies like Google wield enormous power. They reflect our common interests and shape how we learn about the world with their rapid-fire search results. This isn't just about dotcom juggernauts duking it out for stock options and bragging rights. Whoever wins the search wars owns the keys to the kingdom of knowledge. That's a big responsibility. Are search engines...
Sent sprawling to keep the puck from the back of the net and on one occasion fending off as many as six shots in rapid succession, Grumet-Morris did what he has so often as of late—single-handedly held Harvard in games the skaters in front of him might otherwise not have been able to pull out on their...