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...mission failed almost immediately. Walking into the Adams Lower Common Room, I was immediately struck by the charged atmosphere. As students mingled, making introductions and sampling fondue, the scene reminded me of a diplomatic reception between two warring countries. Manners were reserved, speech carefully considered and few members of either group seemed inclined to fly solo while working the room. Soon the organizers called us to attention and we were instructed to break into small groups to begin discussing assimilation and conformity in our minority communities...
...those medals hang about the necks of Whyte and Mleczko, the hockey pair has shown that they possess plenty of backbone to support them. We are the ones who should truly be "crazed" for these young women who refused to give up on the pursuit that struck gold...
...that while avian influenza did not ordinarily make its host sick, a benign virus could reassort to produce a pathogen of almost inconceivable lethality. Webster's Memphis lab had observed such a transformation in the wild on two occasions, the first in April 1983, when a relatively mild influenza struck chickens on the vast chicken farms of Pennsylvania. The birds got visibly sick, some died and egg production fell, but overall the outbreak remained only a vexing economic problem...
...assaulted every tissue in the chickens, including the brain. It caused all their blood vessels to leak and killed them within days, turning the birds, as one researcher put it, into "bloody Jell-O." Federal inspectors arriving at Pennsylvania farms found themselves walking through factory-size chicken coops struck eerily silent, with thousands of dead or hemorrhaging chickens at their feet. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the extermination of 20 million chickens in Pennsylvania, more than 10 times the number that would be killed in the Hong Kong chicken slaughter...
Hultin says he was struck by the uncanny timing of his journey, which took place just as a strange virus with great pandemic potential was emerging in Hong Kong. "I was very apprehensive," he says. "I was waiting for it to come--and it didn't." But another pandemic, he believes, is inevitable. He has given his wife instructions on what to do to survive it: retreat to their mountain cabin until the onslaught passes. It was a tactic, he knows, that was successfully used in 1918 by a village just 30 miles from Brevig. Its elders, after learning...