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...This winter's most common flu strain is showing resistance to the frontline anti-flu treatment, new data shows. More than 10% of virus samples taken in Western Europe this winter were resistant to oseltamivir, better known as Tamiflu, according to figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Nearly 10% of the samples in Canada were resistant too, according to national authorities there, and the U.S. found nearly 7% resistance. The number of resistant strains are still small overall, but the superbugs aren't evenly distributed around the world: In Norway, a staggering...
...lines, highways and airports; power outages rolled across 17 provinces, forcing factories and businesses to close. The southern part of the country, which hadn't seen snow like this since 1954, was woefully unprepared. Even more northerly cities such as Shanghai, which is near the coast, were staggered by winter's wallop. At least 49 deaths were blamed on the storms...
...baking cakes for "people's second, third and even fourth weddings" but has recently been getting orders for confections to mark the end of marriages as well. The designs feature scenarios like a bride kicking her former groom down the tiers of the cake. At Sprinkles Custom Cakes in Winter Park, Fla., Larry Bach has been getting requests for his upside-down wedding cake with the bride or groom's legs sticking out at the bottom as if the cake had crashed down on the figure la the Wicked Witch of the East...
...served under three presidents, four deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, only one provost..but there was a lot of interim-ness,” said former GSAS Dean Theda R. Skocpol this winter, “so it was hard to make progress or big news on big pending problems...
...After a year-and-a-half as interim dean of the Faculty and a semester as acting dean of the College, David R. Pilbeam took a trip of his own this winter break—to the Caribbean, for a much-needed personal holiday. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...