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...studies they include in their systematic reviews.] It's disturbing. I think with influenza there's a feeling in governments that "we have to do something." Well, you can do something: you can better promote cheap public health measures such as hand-washing. They work. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Flu Vaccines Really Work? A Skeptic's View | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

...where tourists and scientists go, to gawk at and study the huge white predators. Just south of Churchill, the Canadian government recently created Wapusk National Park (wapusk means "white bear" in the indigenous Cree language) to protect the area where pregnant females dig their dens. (See the top 10 invasive species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Canada, Grizzlies Invade Polar-Bear Turf | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

Paradoxically, the intrusion of another top predator could in some ways make life easier for the white bears, says Rockwell. "Polar bears will eat anything they can get their grubby little mouths around," he says. "They'll take flightless geese, seals silly enough to get caught on shore when the tide goes out and caribou and moose calves. But they can't run fast enough to bring down adult moose or caribou." Grizzlies can and do - but the catch is, as soon as a grizzly knocks one down, the polar bears will smell it. "An adult male grizzly might weigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Canada, Grizzlies Invade Polar-Bear Turf | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard women’s hockey team, Friday night’s win was doubly important. Not only did it get the Crimson one step closer to the NCAA Tournament, but it also put Harvard coach Katey Stone one step closer to the top of her profession...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stone Breaks All-Time Wins Mark as Women's Hockey Tops Princeton | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

...Merkel, you owe us for Kalavryta, you owe us for Distomo, you owe us ?70 billion ($95 billion) for the ruins you left us," he said, referring to two World War II incidents in which hundreds of Greeks were massacred in reprisal attacks by German soldiers. See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece's Debt Crisis: Blaming Nazi Germany | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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