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That is also the aim for the scores of other viruses that the Yale lab and a select few others in the U.S. receive constantly from around the world. Says Shope: "About 100 of the viruses we have can infect people, and of those, 10% to 20% can kill." But even if scientists find ways to deal with all of those, there will always be more. New viruses are continually leaping from animal populations, where they have circulated harmlessly for years, into humans, and the problem has only become worse as people have moved into formerly uninhabited areas...
...three to six hours. Even at a relatively brisk reading pace of a minute-and-a- half per page, that typically means more than half the author's prose is left on the cutting-room floor. Rather than tamper with the author's language, editors make an effort to select passages so that the narrative remains clear...
...first you wonder why James, who blended statistical analysis and critical writing so brilliantly in his annual editions of The Baseball Abstract and later The Baseball Book (now, alas, replaced by a volume that merely handicaps players), would want to spend a year picking apart the Cooperstown selections. It's as if Pauline Kael were to write a book-length excoriation of the Golden Globe Awards. In his splendid Historical Baseball Abstract (1985), James wrote that for years he had been "refusing to comment on who should be in the Hall of Fame and who should not, for a simple...
...past three years. Wolf's determination to demand deep new pay cuts and layoffs, which might have triggered a bitter and costly strike, helped bring about the current deal when UAL's board decided to buy labor peace by accepting the employee bid. Under the buyout terms, employees will select three of the 12 UAL directors, who together will possess veto power over certain issues such as asset sales and acquisitions. In exchange, the employees will put up $4.9 billion in wage and benefit concessions over 51(R)2 years, ranging from 8.25% in givebacks for nonunion officeworkers and ticket...
Space fans eager to join in the moon-landing anniversary celebrations or hear the latest shuttle updates can get news about the space agency on the Net. Use the "finger" resource for nasanews (http://space.mit.edu) Or use Gopher for (http://world.std.com) and choose "News and Weather," then select "NASA News...