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...such a pandemic could infect 25-30% of the world's population and kill up to 100 million people. Omi's number is higher than earlier estimates, but even in the best-case scenarios millions might die. That would make SARS, which cost Asia billions in 2003 and virtually shut down the region for weeks, look like a slight case of the sniffles...
...Politics further scrambled Jenkins' life. The school suddenly shut down, he says, just after a deadly exchange along the DMZ that became known as the Panmunjom incident. On Aug. 18, 1976, two American officers were hacked to death with axes and metal pikes by a band of North Korean border guards. The melee broke out after the North Koreans tried to stop American and South Korean soldiers from trimming tree branches that blocked the line of sight. The North Koreans expected retaliation for the killings. "They mobilized for war instantly," Jenkins says. "Everybody evacuated and joined up with their units...
After Harvard shut down the UMD first line all weekend, Caroline Ouellette took charge and beat Harvard netminder Ali Boe with a hard shot to win the game...
...first it bothered the heck out of me, and I wrote to the house open list with a message that said ‘SHUT UP STUPID BELLS!’” Carlsson wrote in an e-mail...
Members of one of Harvard Law School’s largest student organizations say they are being shut out of discussions on changes to an introductory course on legal research and writing that could shape the group’s future...