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...winter's lethal outbreak. Professor Yi Guan of the University of Hong Kong worries that H5N1 is evolving so fast that it may gain the ability to infect humans simply by mutating on its own. "We must face the problem, not avoid it," says Yi - or the problem will face us soon enough. - By Bryan Walsh. With reporting by Matthew Forney Sentence Shelved SWEDEN A Stockholm appeals court overturned the life sentence of Mijailo Mijailovic, the convicted murderer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, ruling that he should instead be sent to a psychiatric unit for treatment. The court upheld...
...known as the Kennedy Kids, who became the first American pair to win a world championship when they captured the gold in London in 1950; in Seattle. Kucher and her older brother, Peter, won five consecutive U.S. championships from 1948-52 and a silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics...
...gunships and planes have strafed and bombed Darfurian towns before and after the Janjaweed carried out their massacres. The U.N. and U.S. do not call the pogroms genocide--in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene to save the Darfurians. But two weeks ago, Roger Winter, assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told a Senate hearing that the Janjaweed's murders and rapes "raise questions about the [Darfurian] community's long-term ability to survive and re-establish itself...
...tragedy is that for thousands of Sudanese it may be too late. "That men, women and children uprooted by the war and ethnic cleansing will die in enormous numbers is no longer in doubt due to advanced stages of malnutrition and disease that cannot be reversed," says USAID's Winter. The final death toll will depend largely on "whether the Sudanese government will finally make saving lives in Darfur the priority rather than a chit for negotiation." In such a high-stakes game, few expect that to happen. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Washington and Ilona Eveleens/Kailek
...Crimson accumulated no points in the fall season, but bounced back with a solid showing in the winter, spearheaded by the fencing team, which earned 70.5 points for its performance this year...