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...Hegarty said the inspections did not take place until Feb. 6 because he was sick on the day they were scheduled...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Room Inspections Catch Leverett House Residents by Surprise | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...When he died last week, Kaptan became Thailand's first confirmed victim of avian influenza, the latest scourge to emerge from Asia. Inside the Boonmanuj household, relatives burn incense and quietly weep. Outside, chickens scratch around the yard freely--birds not so different from the ones that made Kaptan sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revenge Of the Birds | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

Hong Kong's 1997 experience alerted the world to the dangers of bird flu and offered a lesson on how to control it: kill sick chickens, and do it as fast as possible. That lesson obviously didn't sink in. Vietnam, the third country to acknowledge the presence of bird flu (after South Korea and Japan) in December, had outbreaks as far back as July. Birds started dropping dead in Thailand in early November, but the government insisted until last week that the chickens merely had a bacterial ailment. Heavily populated Indonesia has been hard hit but refused to cull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revenge Of the Birds | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO WEAR TO THE OSCARS THIS YEAR? I always read, "He looked like a longshoreman." I was at a screening in Italy, and Giorgio Armani asked me if I was sick of reading about how I looked. So he graciously designed a tuxedo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Harvey Weinstein | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...says, "but it has happened. Once on a plane--you know how they play elevator music before you take off?--they played one of the songs. I haven't had to deal with it too much, but my half-sister tells me all the time, 'God, I'm so sick of it. I hear it everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Come Away Again | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

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