Word: southerners
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...birds, has never before been known to attack humans. Since no human can count on having a natural immunity to what is essentially a bird virus, we could prove especially vulnerable to infection. First discovered in South African terns in 1961, H5N1 has already raced through poultry farms in southern China, killing caged fowl by the thousands...
...language, hadn't yet made it to the "level beyond human." Six weeks later, fellow "students" Chuck Humphrey and Wayne ("Nick") Cooke attempted to complete their course work in the approved manner--by swallowing a combination of alcohol and phenobarbital and tying plastic bags over their heads--in a Southern California motel room. Cooke made it to the next level; Humphrey didn't. Fortunately, he had work...
...Small Things (Random House) Arundhati Roy's bold debut achieves an intensity that will feel familiar to fans of D.H. Lawrence. The author sometimes seems too clever for her novel's good, but her material triumphs. Three small children, a blue Plymouth and the lushness of southern India merge into a gripping story of passion thwarted by prejudice...
...Yorker whose Jewish family lived in Harlem, the Bronx and Queens before moving to Florida when he was a teenager, Wildhorn, 39, didn't discover music until he was 15, when he started noodling on the family organ in between football practices. While a student at the University of Southern California, he started writing Jekyll & Hyde with a classmate; an album of songs from the show was released in 1990, and shortly thereafter it was staged at Houston's Alley Theatre. The musical then sat unproduced for several years while its songs worked their way into the pop mainstream: This...
...Stealth fighter, U-2 missions and the U.S. aircraft carrier groups assigned to the Middle East, but what about the squadrons of A-10 Warthogs stationed in Kuwait, only 50 miles from the Iraqi border? We have been patrolling the skies over the no-fly zone in southern Iraq--in harm's way--every day, faithfully, since late 1994. I suppose it's much more glamorous to interview the flight crews on a carrier [WORLD, Nov. 24], but the real story lies with the airmen and ground crews who spend a good portion of their service in remote desert locations...