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...scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention generated artificially combined H5N1 and H3N2 viruses in a lab, but the resulting hybrids were all less deadly than the original bird flu strain. That led to hopes that the H5N1 virus simply lacked the ability to be a true pandemic killer and that to become more transmissible, it would necessarily have to become less dangerous...
...basic services - but others are refreshingly pragmatic, like a suggestion to measure poverty not by income but by access to water, food, medicine, education and legal rights. "Poverty is the absence of these five things," he says, and indeed there are many whose rising incomes don't reflect the true state of their lives...
...clear indication now is that the Russians will sign on for a U.S. push toward tougher sanctions - if true, a major dividend for Obama's decision to shelve a missile-defense program in Eastern Europe. On Feb. 9, Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia's Presidential Security Council, said Iran's "actions ... raise doubts in other countries and those doubts are quite valid." This might leave Beijing in a place it can hardly want to be: isolated on the Security Council...
Narrative art at its best both confounds and satisfies. This episode of Big Love rises to nearly unique, unbearable, thrilling levels of malice and true love, of insanity and empathy. I can't wait to see what happens next. So tonight, I'll be skipping the Winter Olympics. Everyone else can see how the ski-jumpers perform. I have to watch the shark-jumpers...
...that he had done to her and others in the room. "He had all the key elements of an effective apology," says W. Timothy Coombs, Ph.D., a professor of crisis communication at Eastern Illinois University. "I think it is important he noted his future behavior was the true mark of an apology to his wife, his family [and] to his friends and fans." (See pictures of Elin Nordegren...