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...can’t seem to find one. Howard Dean, who defines himself by opposition, is as dependent on Bush as the other major candidates, who justify themselves in terms of who can be best one to beat him in November. The result is that in either strain of Democratic campaigning, Bush gets all the attention. To make a compelling case, the left must talk about what it stands...
...human case now recovering in Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital. They produced their documents. It turned out that though they had done the sequencing, they had not yet analyzed this virus' phylogenetic origins, the RNA road map that would offer some understanding of how this particular strain would be related to those previously gathered. Yi suggested they send their sequences to his lab in Hong Kong, where his technicians and assistants were standing by?they worked almost as hard as Yi?and would use their computer modeling programs to analyze the amino-acid sequences to reconstruct the evolutionary origins...
...party activists were not just angry at George W. Bush; they were furious with the Democrats in Washington who were letting a minority-elected President have his way at every turn. Dean's prescience--and Gore's presence--has created a formidable candidacy and, quite possibly, a potent new strain of liberalism that may supplant the traditional Old and New wings of the party. Let's call the Dean-Gore faction the New-New Democrats...
...experts said they are concerned that the flu shots will not be as effective as in past years. The vaccination only provides immunity against three strains of the flu virus, and the strain emerging this season is not one of them...
...doesn’t hurt to get a flu shot,” she said, “and if it’s the wrong strain, then oh well...