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Want tomatoes? The plants need sun, water, soil and air. And you have to get rid of the weeds - they want the sun, water, soil and air too. As this winter of our country's discontent melts into planting season, our government would do well to take this lesson from the garden. Especially as it applies to medicine. The doctor is a surprisingly fragile plant, in real danger of being strangled by a number of aggressive species. Here is a short field guide to their identification...
Obama may also have been helped by a higher tolerance for calamity. After a winter of market mayhem, job losses and pirate attacks, our panic reflex may have toughened up a bit. We are always on alert now: the threat level is forever orange; the Internet fizzes with warnings and advice. This time, thousands of students stayed home from school in Texas, disrupting a day of standardized state tests, while in New York City, pharmacies reported a run on Tamiflu...
Sugarman had only one concern about filming during a Michigan winter: snow. Even on that front, however, the state has cooperated; after three months of record-high snowfall, the eight weeks of production were precipitation-free. Still, on a frigid first day of spring, it's not hard to spot the Los Angeles - based crew members working the shoot on these Detroit streets. They're the ones huddled in their matching parkas, shivering...
...July and August,” he says, pointing to his records, “these are the kids who are very anxious and applied before their senior year even started.” Anderson’s job requires balance, organizational skills, and even working through the winter holidays. “We are sometimes clearing 2,000 folders on certain days,” he says. “It’s just about keeping every piece moving, you can’t ignore any of it because then you are in deep trouble...
Birds are the natural reservoirs of the common flu strains that strike in winter - and those strains reassort themselves to hit humans particularly hard. But while humans are not susceptible to every strain of avian flu, pigs definitely are. When bird flu viruses replicate in pigs, they pick up the viral machinery that gives more selective flu strains the power to spread to other mammals, like us. That's what makes pigs such potent mixing bowls for flu. The roundabout bird-pig-human route may be less common than the straight bird-human jump, but it may be more problematic...