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...operative Valerie Plame's identity, Bush senior adviser Rove and others at the White House had concluded that if indicted he would immediately resign or possibly go on unpaid leave, several legal and Administration sources familiar with the thinking told TIME. Resignation is the much more likely scenario, they say. The same would apply to I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the Vice President's chief of staff, who also faces a possible indictment. A former White House official says Rove's break with Bush would have to be clean--no "giving advice from the sidelines"--for the sake of the Administration...
...major Asian outbreak of human flu could reach the U.S. in a matter of weeks, and, according to Forbes.com, “could lead to the deaths of 1.9 million Americans and the hospitalization of 8.5 million more people with costs exceeding $450 billion.” Such a scenario now seems vastly more likely with the discovery, last week, that the avian flu virus can mutate independently to become a lethal strain to humans...
This is not an unfavorable scenario by any means and so fear is not an appropriate or productive response. An influx in the transaction of ideas between both hemispheres of the world will be greatly advantageous to both sides in the long run; it is also inevitable...
...about as ready as it's possible to be for a virus that could be up to 25 times more deadly than a standard flu (thus killing 2.5% of those it infects), to which no one is yet immune, and for which there's no effective treatment. The gloomiest scenario for Australia, Abbott says, is an outbreak "that would bring life as we know it to a standstill for about six months." Societies like Australia's, he adds, "are not used to contemplating death on this scale...
There was a time not too long ago when Harvard coach Tim Murphy would likely have had nightmares about the scenario he faced late Saturday afternoon. Time running out in the fourth quarter, down by one following yet another improbable comeback touchdown drive, the fate of the Crimson’s young season now resting precariously on the foot of its placekicker...