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...estimates human-to-human transmission could make ill half its worldwide staff. The World Bank is calling for rich nations to donate millions - to pay for mass culling, compensation and animal vaccination - to the places where the disease has lodged, and wants the West to invest in research to speed up the development of effective antiviral treatments before human-to-human transmission takes off. In Turkey, meanwhile, the virus may already be endemic: a permanent presence that would constantly threaten to invade Europe in the future. Even if everyone has learned the lessons of previous health and food-safety crises...
...with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in 2001 to launch the International Emerging Infections Program (IEIP). Under the program, Thailand has obtained advanced laboratory technology from the U.S., as well as training for Thai epidemiologists and volunteers. That makes for faster reaction times when the disease strikes, and "speed is essential in trying to contain any outbreak," says Dr. Sonja Olsen, the IEIP's acting director. In rural hospitals in Sa Kaeo province, which borders Cambodia, patients who are initially diagnosed with pneumonia - the sort of severe respiratory disease that could be confused with bird flu - are now immediately...
...motto - Best in the World - may sound immodest, but the team heading to Italy may well be the most talented group of skiers the U.S. has ever assembled. Miller's teammate Daron Rahlves, in fact, was sensational in winning the Lauberhorn downhill at Wengen. John McBride, the men's speed coach and a Miller confidant, acknowledges that the dustup "had been a team issue." But it's not, he adds, "like Bode's turned into...
...approach clearly works. He has won two Olympic medals, four world championship golds and 19 World Cup events. In a sport in which athletes tend to specialize in either the speed events (downhill, super-G) or technical events (slalom, giant slalom), Miller does it all. In the first race after his apology, Miller smoked the slalom part of the day's super combined event (downhill and slalom), putting him more than a second ahead of the field. It's an astonishing feat, given that most racers are separated by hundredths of seconds. He was, however, disqualified on a technicality, despite...
...Bartzokis long suspected, it would follow that most of the myelin added in those years would appear around the signal-transmitting axons in the higher brain regions that are the seat of sophisticated thought. Essentially, the brain spends decades upgrading itself from a dial-up Internet to a high-speed version, not fully completing the job until...