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...Started his boxing career at age 16, weighing just 106 lb. His early fights took place in small, local venues of the Philippines. He was inspired to pursue his boxing career following the death of close friend Mark Penaflorida in 1994. His big break came June 23, 2001, when he stepped into the ring as a late replacement, won by a technical knockout and became the IBF Super Batamweight Champion...
...their friends' friends are hacked - it can take a few days for Facebook to fix the problem. That's what happened on April 29 and 30, when users found themselves accidentally logging in to a website called FBAction.net. Designed to look exactly like Facebook, the evil doppelgänger took their info and hacked their accounts...
...inability to see a future when unemployment will be no better than 7% may be born of the deep pessimism that has seized the thinking of many analysts as they are in the midst of this dismantling of what it took the business community three decades to create. The reason that their forecasts may be wrong is that they are born of despair more than logic, just as the forecasts of permanent prosperity that were prevalent five years ago were born out of the mania caused by a historic inflation of real estate, unprecedented leverage, and ballooning stock markets...
...easy. It took years to find the original animal sources of SARS and HIV, among other new diseases. What makes tracking emerging viruses inside wildlife populations all the more difficult is that animals - even more than people - move around a lot, across borders. The U.S. imports live pigs from Europe, while Mexico takes in some 600,000 pigs a year from the U.S., so it's entirely possible that the virus began in Europe (the H1N1 virus has Eurasian genes), then moved to America and Mexico with pigs before infecting the first human. "It's going to take several weeks...
...Richard Besser isn't one for easing into a new job. Before becoming the acting director-general of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the trained pediatrician was the head of the CDC's emergency response office, a position he took in 2005, hours before Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, just a few months after being named the CDC's interim head - in lieu of a political appointment from President Barack Obama - Besser has been thrust into the role of the government's public health commander-in-chief, guiding the agency through what could be the first new influenza...