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concrete as well. Tall buildings are now more likely to have duplicated communications systems: if one goes out in an emergency, another can still transmit directions to people and rescuers inside...
...Asia this year, and the news isn't getting better. Fortunately the only way the disease seems to spread to humans is through close contact with infected birds, although rare cases of human-to-human transmission have occurred. But if bird flu mutates and gains the ability to transmit as easily as normal flu-and scientists say that is a real possibility-it could trigger a worldwide pandemic similar to that in 1918. That prospect was raised last week, when Dr. Shigeru Omi, the World Health Organization's (WHO) regional director for the Western Pacific, estimated that such a pandemic...
...particular, many of the Quad Houses’ are built with concrete, which impedes cell phone reception, and the city of Cambridge has been resistant to erecting new sites to transmit cell phone signals...
...schools. But he disarms critics by talking early and often about the limits of government. "When you've traveled across the state, what you consistently find is a common set of values: hard work, self-respect, delayed gratification," he says. "We all have to acknowledge that government cannot transmit those values. They come from the bottom...
Other struggling cultures have similarly translated godly law into earthly order and in doing so helped ensure their survival. The earliest Christians established a rough institutional structure that allowed them to transmit their ideas within a generation of Christ's death, and as a result succeeded in living through the Roman persecution; the Jews of the Diaspora moved as a cultural whole through the nations of Europe, finding niches wherever they could but maintaining their identity and kinship by observing the same rites. "All religions become a bit secular," says Wilson. "In order to survive, you have to organize yourselves...