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...villagers in the fight against bird flu. But Indonesia still needs much more money to help farmers stop flu in their poultry. Until that happens, the risk of a pandemic will persist. And the rest of the world may pay the price once Indonesia's chickens come home to roost...
...biggest surprise of the night came in the women’s epee: after falling 5-4 to Duke last Sunday, the team of sophomore Maria Larsson and seniors Jasmine McGlade and Precious Eboigbe dominated to pull out a 9-0 win. “They ruled the roost,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “They were the best so far this year. They really came through today, they fenced to their potential.” The foil squad continued to perform flawlessly, finishing 9-0, as sophomore Elizabeth Bast filled in for Goldfeder with...
...actively, individually engaged in universal history. I don't see how they can bear it.'' Still, as Israel turns 40, it seems unhappy, agitated and exhausting. The idealistic founding energies have matured into certain disillusions of middle age. The moral discrepancy in the original ideal has come home to roost. Israel's political leadership is divided and essentially stagnant, taken by surprise by the Palestinian uprising, paralyzed by the dilemma of the territories. Public opinion is splintered between hard-liners who want to keep all the land and those willing to take the chance of giving some...
...While bird lovers admire grackles for their iridescent feathers and canny ability to mimic human voices, for others they're a nuisance - dirty, noisy and a plague that has prompted cities and institutions across the country to declare war on the black clouds that roost in trees throughout the southern U.S. So when the black birds turned up dead, suspicions about a possible culprit exposed divisions that run deep across the country between the pro- and anti-grackle camps...
...captures this perfectly. In this woven heirloom mat, masculine symbols of authority, including the royal coat of arms, are supremely feminized, including a pair of hibiscus flowers added by Poutasi's daughter Tusi Luafutu when she emigrated to Australia in 1991. It's quite clear who rules the roost. Played out in these textiles are imaginative alternate universes, where the deposed Pomare kings and queens of Tahiti live on in the triumphant tifaifai of Aline Amaru. With her kapa kuiki laden with royal insignia, Hawaiian Gussie Bento too unstitches the spread of colonization. To protest the overthrow of their monarchy...