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With the potential to cause havoc on infected computers on the 6th of every month, the Klez.E worm, a variant in the Klez family that carries with it a file-infecting virus, W32/Elkern.B., has spread rapidly in recent weeks and caused much concern among students...
...south of China. The so-called Asian flu, first identified in China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together killed more than 1.5 million people worldwide. Considering the lethal history, scientists are keen to track the mutations of the latest virus. Although only the 1997 variant infected humans, the concern is that another fatal combination could leap the species barrier at any time."We do not know enough about H5N1," Shortridge says. "It's a dangerous situation...
Harvard had difficulty defending Cornell with a man-to-man defense, as the Big Red runs a subtle variant of Harvard’s own offense that confused the team early. The Crimson had much more success in a zone, especially once the Big Red cooled down from behind...
...panic over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as "mad cow" disease, spread all the way to Japan last year, where a handful of cases caused beef sales to plummet. The good news was that researchers using a mathematical model estimated that the brain-wasting BSE variant in humans may max out at 100 cases per year in Britain, ground zero for mad cow, and kill no more than a few thousand people in the coming decade. Feel any better...
...Boris G. Sumilovitch ‘03 dressed as a nerd for Halloween—pants high, shirt tucked in, sporting thick black glasses. 100% of the people that he met made some variant of a “Dude, you didn’t need to dress up to be a nerd!” joke. Sumilovitch noted that he should have anticipated that shit...