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...Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis in Oslo, and lead author of the PLoS Medicine paper. Working with nearly 50 years of animal, human and bacteriological statistics from the former Soviet Union, his team found that human plague in Kazakhstan occurs only when the local gerbil population reaches a certain threshold in winter. Warmer winters mean more gerbils. That, says Stenseth, suggests plague's "re-emergence might have a climate component...
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, on the launch of a rocket that likely cracked the 60-mile (96.5 km) mark, the technical threshold of space. An orbital mission is promised for the future...
...first place. So collapsing on your dorm-room couch this afternoon may not be such a bad idea. Just make sure you’re awake during that 11 a.m. class.The study’s lead author, Matthew A. Tucker of the Medical School, suggested that a threshold of learning must be reached before napping can provide an added boost...
...President under similar circumstances and, despite his endorsement of Bob Dole, got 11% of the vote. Tennessee is not a winner-take-all state, and under party rules a candidate needs 20% of the vote statewide, or in a congressional district, to win delegates. Thompson may well reach that threshold, leaving delegates committed to him for two ballots at the convention - unless he releases them...
...single, boys’ rules go. This places an uneven level of control in the hands of the final clubs’ male members—socially anxious stiletto-clad girls forge friendships with an arbitrary group of polo-clad boys so that they might gain entrance across the threshold of the Spee Club one or another Friday night. Because women’s clubs often hold their parties and punch events in male clubs, even members of female final clubs find themselves relying on their male counterparts for a good time. Essentially, the nature of final clubs...