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...Lunar New Year festival (beginning Feb. 9) are the perfect ingredients for an explosive rise in infections?and every infection gives the H5N1 virus the opportunity to further adapt to humans. "If something is going to cook, Tet is when it's going to happen," says Dr. Robert Webster, an avian-flu expert at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis...
...traditional poultry practices are dangerous because dense populations of people and birds mingle at virtually every step of production, from chick to ph? pot. With the virus embedded in the local duck and chicken population, repeated human-bird contact means "it's inevitable you'll get human infection," says Webster. Vietnam is trying to halt such infections by modernizing its poultry industry, limiting human-bird contact, but that won't be easy. More than 80% of its poultry producers are small-scale farmers who raise a few dozen birds to eat or sell?and few keep their flocks in cages...
...middling achievers called Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID), designed for freshmen who enter with a GPA between 2.0 and 3.5 and show the potential to succeed in honors classes. The AVID classes teach them how to take notes and study for exams more effectively, and provide tutoring. Samir Webster, who came to Huron last year with pretty good middle school grades but an antiacademic chip on his shoulder the size of his blowout Afro, didn't apply himself until AVID class changed his attitude. He now has a B average. "I used to watch TV, play video games or hang...
...defeat our enemies. They would like nothing better than to see the U.S. implode following a divisive election. We don't need the mainstream media to foment chaos and divisiveness. Enough already! We need the media to help unite us. United we stand; divided we fall. HARRIET E. RICE Webster...