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...found in the avian version. But nimr director and influenza expert John Skehel says he has also found a worrisome protein change in one of the human genetic sequences. "That mutation makes the virus prefer human cells," Skehel told Time. He cautioned that there are other factors - some still unknown - that will determine whether people eventually transmit bird flu to one another. But, he says, the protein mutation is "one of the things" that is required. Scientists are intrigued, however, by the cases of two young brothers hospitalized at the Kecioren Hospital in Ankara. They tested positive for the h5n1...
...frosted bottle, C�zanne-inspired label and $30-a-bottle price tag--and seven years later sold it to Bacardi for more than $2 billion; in San Diego. In the 1970s, Frank sensed an unquenched niche in a more rambunctious market--college students--and began importing the near unknown German liqueur Jagermeister, sometimes compared to cough syrup. With the help of a cadre of pretty "Jagerettes," who poured free shots in bars, the brand soared in sales from some 500 cases in 1974 to more than 2 million last year...
...campus, for example, the admissions data for one year showed only 42 percent of entering students as white—with a 32 percent “unknown” category—whereas the post-matriculation survey’s results had only 4 percent “unknown,” revealing that at least 57 percent of the student population was white, and potentially up to 70 percent...
Clayton-Pedersen stressed that the project did not attempt to explore the motivations of the students who left their ethnicity unknown, although it does suggest some speculative reasons for students’ candor once they enrolled, including a fear of discrimination. The study also suggests that mixed-race students may not feel comfortable ticking only...
Goffredo, together with freshman point guard Drew Housman (10.5 ppg), has helped Harvard turn an unknown quantity into a core strength...