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...consequences of inadvertent infection. She hooks up with Rob, a cute guy who, as she discovers in the act of coitus, has a second mouth that utters his deepest thoughts. "It's impossible?nnn?never make it out alive." While enduring the usual high school dramas - a pregnancy scare as he avoids her in the hallways - things get worse when she discovers she can shed her entire epidermis like a snake. So, outed at the school, she flees to the woods with Rob, who has disclosed his true feelings for her. Almost literally ensconced in a love nest, things...
...Unlike the anthrax scare, pandemic fears are widespread and taken far more seriously by international agencies. So the demand for a treatment--until, at least, a vaccine becomes available, and probably well after--isn't likely to subside. It will continue to draw manufacturers considerably less concerned than is Roche about its intellectual property rights. Cipla, an Indian generics manufacturer that already sells cheap HIV drugs to African countries, now plans to begin selling a generic version of Tamiflu at cut-rate prices--and says it will do so probably within three months, regardless of whether the Swiss drug firm...
...Don’t let that 10.5 number in front of the Big Red scare...
...spooky country, and Bruckheimer knows far better than I how many people out there are ready to put the kids to bed; flip on the baby monitor, motion-sensitive lights and alarm system; and settle down in front of the widescreen for a nice, safe scare...
...prospect of a flu epidemic makes us wobbly. We bounce back and forth between being scared silly and just plain apathetic. Influenza regularly kills 1 million people a year--36,000 of them in the U.S.--yet most of us don't get vaccinated. The new threat requires a different response--a healthy respect for the toll that even a moderate pandemic may take on our society and just enough genuine fear to figure out some smart steps to take to minimize the damage. "We need to scare people into their wits, not out of them," says Michael Osterholm, director...