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...actually originated in pigs. There's been no evidence yet of pigs getting sick in either Mexico or the U.S. (Despite several countries' bans on pork imports, it's important to remember that the disease cannot be contracted by eating pork.) The original reservoir for flu viruses is actually wild birds, which can spread infection to domestic birds and people - as we saw with the H5N1 avian flu in Asia - and to pigs. Pigs make particularly good biological mixing bowls since they can be infected by bird-, swine- and human-flu viruses and provide a hospitable environment for the viruses...
...third with a groundball and senior Tom Stack-Babich drove Rogers home with a single to center field. Northeastern pitcher Tyler Thornton hit rookie J.T. Tomes to load the bases and then walked senior catcher Jared Wortzman to make the score 9-7. Stack-Babich reached home on a wild pitch, bringing up sophomore Dillon O’Neill with one out and a pair of runners on base.O’Neill smoked a two-run triple to give Harvard the lead and the comeback was completed. The Crimson tacked another four runs in the frame...
...first advice to my daughters was to be careful of boys, and to be leery of boys, having been a boy myself. For the most part my advice for the boys is the same - be careful of girls. Be careful of people of the other sex. Be careful of wild promises. Just like on Wall Street...
...mystery that the 1986 New York Mets were a wild bunch. "When the Mets came to your town it was like Mardi Gras," you write. "The clubs would be packed, waiting for us to roll in. Guys wanted to get next to us and buy us drinks or take us into the men's room and lay out a few rails of coke . . .The only hard part for us was choosing which hottie to take back to your hotel room." You include a couple of anecdotes about your own sexual trysts. Why share that detail? Because it's the truth...
...Marketing firms are not the only ones who seem to have mistaken a wild stalk-and-ambush predator for an actual person. This image of an aggressively sexual older woman who pounces on younger men pervades our media. Spurred by the marriage of then-42-year-old Demi Moore to then-27-year-old heartthrob Ashton Kutcher, cougar mania swept Hollywood at the start of the millennium and engulfed both fictional characters (Samantha Jones, the seminal cougar of “Sex and the City” fame) and real-life women (most recently, Madonna, age 50, and her barely...