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...this outbreak, the disease could return next year?possibly in a more infectious form. Initial hopes that the virus would weaken as it passed through the human population proved false. Worse, mutations in the virus seem to accumulate and spread rapidly, which increases the likelihood that a nasty new variant could appear in the future?possibly next fall or winter, when environmental conditions could make SARS more contagious. (Some scientists theorize that SARS, like similar viral infections that produce colds, could settle into a seasonal pattern of infection.) "What we have to realize is that SARS may be with...
...focus on the average target, and some people deviate from the target,” says Jeruzalmi. But by analyzing individual genomes, he says, “you can synthesize the variant that’s going to be the best...
...Cuban people. If I stay in Massachusetts, my issue would likely involve exploiting some loophole in order to use federal tax increases for the improvement of the local baseball franchise. The slogan for this initiative could be simple and stirring, speaking to the everyday man—probably some variant on “The Sox are wicked pissah! This is thah yea-ah! NO-MAHHH!” A move out west may necessitate such campaign battle cries as “Brigham Young, Brigham Old, just Brigham to the polls to vote” and issues such...
...religious structures of the Shiite clergy - with which the U.S. has, at best, an awkward relationship - that have come to the fore, being the only coherent national organizational structure once the war left the Baath Party and the security services in disarray. Shiite Islam, unlike the Sunni variant, concentrates religious authority along local and regional lines. The ability of the Shiite clerical hierarchy in Najaf to project its authority into Baghdad, for example, has been visible over the past week: Acting on orders from Najaf, local Imams have organized their followers into armed neighborhood militia that have moved to stop...
...play dice with the universe," McManus writes, "but serious gamblers...prefer no-limit Texas hold'em," a particularly hard-boiled poker variant. McManus gives the reader a riveting over-the-shoulder view of the hand-by-hand action as he scours his opponents' poker faces for "tells"--nervous tics that betray their true emotions--while betting his next mortgage payment on the turn of a little cardboard rectangle...