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...bird flu, focusing on the most needy countries. In the U.K., businesses have been urged by the government to develop contingency plans against a pandemic: the giant global bank HSBC estimates human-to-human transmission could make ill half its worldwide staff. The World Bank is calling for rich nations to donate millions - to pay for mass culling, compensation and animal vaccination - to the places where the disease has lodged, and wants the West to invest in research to speed up the development of effective antiviral treatments before human-to-human transmission takes off. In Turkey, meanwhile, the virus...
...late 1990s - when it was much needed. Crucially, the U.S. sometimes acts to protect others - by deploying its massive military power - even when its own security is not directly threatened by turmoil overseas. This is not a common attribute among nations. The countries of Western Europe are as rich as the U.S., and were more directly affected by the wars of the Yugoslav succession from 1991 to 1999. But the memories of Europe's dark 20th century meant that there was little support, in any European country, for the use of force to impose a solution there...
...experiencing a wave of popular interest just as prices are soaring out of reach for many. "Destination restaurants" are becoming a one-time splurge for the curious. That, in turn, could lead to slipping standards if most diners are too intimidated to complain - and the rest are too rich to care. Dedicated foodies who have worked to pay their way through the University of the Good Life are being priced out of the market. There's an argument, too, for starting the learning process on the nursery slopes of fine cuisine. Many novices get too dizzy from price-altitude sickness...
DIED. BIRGIT NILSSON, 87, international opera star whose rich timbre, dramatic interpretations and unrivaled stamina made her the finest Wagnerian soprano of her generation; on Christmas Day; in her hometown, Vastra Karup, Sweden. Level-headed and sharp-witted, Nilsson thrilled audiences from New York to Milan in operas by Verdi (Aida), Strauss (Elektra, below) and Puccini (Turandot) but won her most enthusiastic fans with dynamic lead performances in such Wagner works as The Ring of the Nibelung and Tristan und Isolde. Asked to name the primary requirement for playing Isolde, a punishing role she sang some 200 times, she said...
...hoops like Michael Jordan, Davis was lacing on skates and speeding around an ice rink. His buddies teased him for dedicating himself to a sport that seemed so white. "A lot of kids made fun of [speed skating] because it wasn't a thing you could do to get rich," says Davis...