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...begin the process of preparing a swine flu vaccine strain. But the agency recommended that drug companies continue to make a seasonal flu vaccine instead of switching immediately to the production of an A/H1N1 flu vaccine. That's important because drugmakers are currently producing a flu vaccine for the southern hemisphere, where the flu season has just begun. (The flu season in the north has just ended.) If vaccine manufacturing capacity were switched from the standard flu to swine flu, that could create a shortfall in normal flu vaccine, potentially leading to needless deaths should the A/H1N1 swine...
...Bangkok military seminar in February concluded that the conflict in southern Thailand, now entering its sixth year, "will get worse before it gets any better." In the same week, insurgents gunned down a village chief, blew up two people and shot two soldiers, mutilating and burning the corpses. Some 3,300 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 2004. Exactly how much worse does it need...
...holy war but a rebellion driven by homegrown historical and political grievances. McCargo rightly scorns the legions of post-9/11 armchair analysts who try to shoehorn every conflict into well-Googled theories of global jihad. No armchairs for this author: he researched the book by crisscrossing southern Thailand in a temperamental 1989 Mercedes, hastening back to the town of Pattani by nightfall to avoid militant booby traps. McCargo is the real McCoy...
...unless your southern spring break was a month long, you're probably in the clear...
...More than anything else, these developments may signal the fact that those who, on biblical grounds, are led by conscience to reject same-sex marriage, really will be exposed as a moral minority," the Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a staunch defender of traditional definition of marriage, told TIME recently. "If so, it will expose a great divide over the authority of the Bible among many Christian churches and denominations - perhaps in a way exceeding any other issue." (Check out the story "What If You're on the Gay 'Enemies List...