Word: rift
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...birds could spread the lethal h5n1 virus - which can jump to humans and has killed at least 60 people in Asia so far, including a chicken farmer in Thailand last week - to domestic poultry in Africa. According to Ethiopian geneticist Tadelle Dessie, huge flocks migrating to lakes in the Rift Valley pose a threat. Where poultry is kept outdoors, the risks are great, he says. The fao fears wild birds wintering in Africa might bring the disease north to Europe next spring. But some scientists think the threat is exaggerated. "Everyone seems to think that it's going to happen...
...produce such a range of smells. In the absence of “evidence,” we developed a couple theories that seem pretty solid: 1) The ghost of John Harvard haunts students in their daily meanderings, cutting ass so hard that the smell manages to open a rift between the phantom realm into the material world, like Keanu Reeves’ in that movie. 2) It is the new terrorism, designed to make living in the city vaguely irritating until one day you just lose it and say, “Punk this, I’m going...
...minds of students, workers, or living-wage advocates—the consequence is stark. As long as there ultimately exists some difference in monetary worth between Harvard’s lowest-paid workers and other members of the community (and there surely will), so too will there exist a rift in the human worth accorded to members of each of those two groups.The notion is more intuitive than the formal argument makes it seem: when a Harvard student knows that the University has allocated a greater portion of his or her fees to pay the wage of a janitor...
...presidency and the parliament as senior partner in a coalition with the Kaczynskis' party. That alliance could be fraught with tensions. Fractious coalitions are hardly unusual in Polish politics, but Civic Platform leaders may find the Law and Justice Party an especially restless bedfellow. In addition to the rift over the flat tax, Kaczynski says he'll push for a more "social" economic policy, and limit privatization in sectors deemed vital to the "security of the state." There could be personal, as well as policy, differences, too. There was some early friction last week when Kaczynski said that...
...after meeting in Rome with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Curran told a press conference that the Vatican has judged his views on sexual ethics unacceptable. That could lead to his dismissal from the university and widen a growing rift between Rome and the Americans...