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...result: society began to break apart. Confidential Red Cross reports noted "panic akin to the terror of the Middle Ages of the plague" and victims starving to death "not from lack of food but because the well are afraid to help the sick." Doctors and nurses were kidnapped. One scientist concluded that if the epidemic continued to build, "civilization could easily disappear from the face of the earth within a few more weeks...
...weakened immune system. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that influenza kills 36,000 Americans in an average year. The CDC also calculates that a pandemic caused by a virus comparable to that of 1968 would kill between 89,000 and 207,000 Americans. And the scientist who prepared that study has refused to estimate the toll from a more virulent virus because, he says, he doesn't want to "scare" people...
...October 2004 article on Harvard constitutional law scholar Lawrence Tribe. Bottum revealed that Tribe, in a 1985 book on Supreme Court appointments, included a 19-word passage that was lifted verbatim—without attribution—from an earlier text by a University of Virginia political scientist...
...logical end. The Bush Administration can no longer provide security - that most basic part of the Hobbesian bargain in which power is ceded to a central authority in exchange for protection. To consign people to death because of bureaucratic ineptitude is one issue, but speaking as a political scientist, I believe failure to provide security for one of the largest ports in the U.S. is simply unthinkable. Barbara P. McCrea Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S. I am sick and tired of people blaming the Federal Government in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. When did it become the President's responsibility...
...means for the country. One interpretation is that the results are a sign of a deepening social divide between jobless and low-paid workers and young, urban professionals. "The gap between winners and losers used to be bridged by the welfare state," says Franz Walter, a political scientist at Göttingen University. "That is no longer happening. We are back in the Middle Ages, with the beggar in front of the church doors." Whatever government emerges will have to bridge the divides. But neither Schröder nor Merkel seems well suited to unify after a campaign in which...