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...died in a bird-flu outbreak. But until this week, China had reported no widespread outbreaks of the virus among bird populations, prompting concerns among some public-health experts that mainland health and veterinary authorities could be missing - or even concealing - the spread of the disease through poultry and wild birds. Hong Kong, where the first human cases of H5N1 infection were found in 1997, reported finding a dozen birds with the deadly strain of the virus earlier this year - a strong indication that the virus is very likely present in adjacent Guangdong province. But so far, Guangdong has reported...
...ugly, nasty and desperate. To stave off a Roman siege in A.D. 189, the defenders of the Greek city of Ambracia built a complex flamethrower that coughed out smoking chicken feathers. At Themiscrya, another stubborn Greek outpost, Romans tunneling beneath the city contended with not only a charge of wild beasts but also a barrage of hives swarming with bees - a rather direct approach to biological warfare...
...boss, Billy, is in court-ordered rehab. When Billy gets out, a power struggle ensues. Johnny and Billy have different visions for the gang. Johnny is a tough guy, but he's got a cool head; Billy, who looks like Ron Perlman and talks like Dennis Hopper, is the wild man who wants to push the Lost deeper into drug-dealing and gang warfare. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
Freedom isn't a problem for Houser. As a storyteller, he feels as though he's lucked into the lawless, Wild West period of video games. "It's not academicized," he says. "There's no orthodoxy on how things are done, so we can do whatever we want. We make it up as we go along!" As for the ongoing debate about whether games are art, he couldn't care less. That's what critics get paid for. "As soon as we get told, 'Yes, games are high art. They're almost as high as painting and slightly less than...
...Girls Gone Wild: Fort Lauderdale...