Word: risking
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...wipe out a species before conservationists would have time to act. "Small populations have therefore reached a point of departure: away from the ability to adapt to changing environmental circumstances and toward inflexible vulnerability to those same changes," writes Traill. (Read "Extinction 'Gene': Why Some Species Are More at Risk...
...climate change and on the new architecture of the international financial system, the E.U. is already doing that. On questions of security, like the war in Afghanistan and the risk that the Horn of Africa will become a new center of global terrorism, it's not quite there. Much is going to depend on personnel. If the new President of the E.U. is a person of international stature (as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the front-runner for the post, plainly is), able to project Europe's view while convincing the smaller members of the union that their voices...
...list of about 300 to 400 people who qualify as high-risk according to CDC guidelines...
...Everyone wants to get it and will be clamoring for it,” Rosenthal said of the H1N1 vaccine. “If we have a limited supply, we need to make sure we get it to people who are high-risk first...
Massachusetts is not yet distributing injectable H1N1 vaccine, though the state has been giving out an intranasal spray vaccine with live H1N1 flu virus. Rosenthal said that UHS has only ordered injectable vaccines with dead virus because live virus is not safe for use in high-risk groups...