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...prick our consciences and motivate us to open our wallets, but they don't threaten our own health. Avian influenza is different. Though the H5N1 virus is spreading and killing mainly in Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, the possibility that bird flu could mutate and become a pandemic is a serious threat to us all. That's why Jakarta's fight with the World Health Organization (WHO) over how an avian-flu vaccine should be developed and distributed is so important...
...prospects for AIM look as good or better than they've ever looked," says Patrick Evershed, a fund manager at New Star Asset Management in London. Vycon's Aoun encourages firms to consider AIM, but with a caveat. "This is no minor undertaking," he says. "Be ready for some serious work." After all, growing up is hard...
...troops from the air assault reached Qubah's ruddy streets, with insurgents letting machine guns loose from several buildings. One U.S. soldier took a burst of fire in the chest at virtually point-blank range that knocked him on his back. But his body armor saved him from serious injury, and a moment later he was up after emptying his own weapon into the gunmen while on his back...
...Shatt al-Arab waterway, and British officials had initially said the Iranian action may simply have been based on a misunderstanding, the British position hardened over the weekend, with Prime Minister Tony Blair denouncing the Iranian action as "unjustified and wrong," and warning that Britain viewed it in a serious light. On Monday Iraq backed London's claim that the incident had occurred inside Iraqi waters, which Britain patrols under U.N. mandate...
...money has played a big part in the change. The game is now worth billions of dollars in advertising and television rights, especially in South Asia where cricket stars have become spokesmen for everything from sports shoes to banks. Money in sport isn't a bad thing; the more serious damage has been done by the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on illegal betting on cricket matches. Ahead of Friday's game between India and Sri Lanka, for instance, one Indian newspaper reports that bookmakers in Dubai alone have taken in some $23 million. All that money creates...