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...Thai officials, especially at the highest levels, are now taking the threat seriously. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has pledged to wipe out bird flu in the country by the end of October, and last week enlisted more than 900,000 volunteers to cull sick chickens and do spot checks on potential new outbreaks. His biggest challenge is to get poultry-dependent villages like Srisomboon, where Sakuntala Premphasri lived, onto the program. Villagers told a TIME reporter that even though they knew their chickens were likely dying of bird flu in August, they did not alert livestock officials because they believed...
...When I heard that Scott was leaving and Erik was replacing him, I was very excited,” said junior Robbie Burmeister, Harvard’s goaltender. “I felt that after last year, we needed a fresh start and an opportunity to wipe the slate clean as a team...
...momentum carried over to the fourth frame, as Harvard jumped out to an 11-5 lead. But the Crimson attack could only muster one kill over the next 14 points, allowing the Horned Frogs to wipe away the deficit and stake to a four-point lead of their own, 17-13. Harvard stayed with TCU the rest of the way, but could never chip away at the lead, falling by the same margin...
...teams, to quiet the boulevard. Two Iraqi guardsmen were killed, and U.S. commanders say their troops killed dozens of insurgents in the fire fight. But the attacks haven't subsided. "[The insurgents are] not intimidated," says Staff Sergeant Wilbert Tynes. "You've actually got to wipe them out to get rid of them...
...ultra-right-wing group and agrees to share power, the Nazis will be forced to "launch our version of Sinn Fein to keep talking to the government and our version of the I.R.A. to practice terror." This disturbed young man is grossly misinformed. The I.R.A. was not attempting to wipe out the Unionist population of Northern Ireland, but fought a guerrilla war against the British army to attain Irish sovereignty in the North. To compare the conflict in Northern Ireland with the twisted ideologies of the emerging fascist right in the new Russia is nonsense. Mark Eiffe Cork City, Ireland...