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...soundtrack to Todd Solondz’s “Storytelling,” where the band was cramped by the demands of making music appropriate to the film. Even when a band is dexterous enough to handle that emotional range, it tends to be a bit of a strain on the music. Tell me I’m wrong...
...gearing up to handle a potential crisis. The U.S. has just begun clinical tests on an experimental human vaccine for bird flu, and has made plans to stockpile 4 million doses. But if bird flu evolves into a pandemic, there's no guarantee this vaccine would stop a new strain. Despite that threat, a wide perception persists that the disease remains only a distant worry. That complacency is both understandable and dangerous. "A problem in a remote part of the world becomes a world problem overnight," Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...have contracted it from chickens or ducks). But because the virus is so unstable, it may only be a matter of time before it becomes efficient at moving from person to person. Even if a vaccine were available, it would take months before the correct combination of viral-strain types could be incorporated into the shot. In the meantime, millions of people could get infected...
...does it take so long to develop a vaccine? All flu shots contain a blend of several virus strains, which take about four months to grow into a single strain inside chicken eggs in the lab. Doses can't be saved from year to year because the same strain rarely shows up in two flu seasons...
Bergman continues to miss action due to a nagging hip problem. Lingman sat due to a nagging hip problem. Lingman sat out because of an abdominal strain...