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...battle against bird flu hinges on information, cooperation and quick response?if the disease is spreading under the radar in Cambodia, it could wreck regional control efforts. With the help of the WHO, Cambodian officials have begun to slowly step up surveillance and education programs. But to contain the disease, Cambodia and its neighbors would need to radically modernize their animal husbandry practices, separating species (ducks are able to spread the virus without showing symptoms), keeping birds in pens and properly vaccinating flocks. The trouble is, such measures would require hundreds of millions of dollars to educate and equip poor...
...received a Purple Heart last summer for his service in Iraq, his heart wasn't in it anymore. By Christmas, while on leave at his parents' home in Lexington, Ky., Anderson, 22, was dead set against the war. Haunted by memories of civilian casualties, he had become a nervous wreck. So early last month, a few days before he was due to return to his unit's base in Germany and prepare for a redeployment to Iraq later this year, Anderson rented a car and drove to Toronto. Since arriving, Anderson has joined several like-minded U.S. soldiers fighting...
...Train wreck. "A good fighting opposition plays a role not only in being constructive with their own policy agenda, but holding the government to account." Where is Mark Latham since the tsunami struck? LATHAM'S BLACKOUT. Anyone But Latham. "The news about my health has not been good." DEAD IN THE WATER. "I have decided to resign both as Labor leader and as member for Werriwa." Whack. "Public life can take it out of people and, after 17 years and two serious life-threatening illnesses, the time has come to put my family and my health first." Bring Back Beazley...
...Increase in the monthly risk to doctor trainees of getting in a car wreck on the way home after a 24-hour-plus shift...
...stem this growing threat. The alternative is that we wring every bit of short-term profit out of American industry while likely sacrificing its long-term health and the health of this planet. If we do not act, fifty years from now we will look back on our train wreck of an environment and wonder why we didn’t step on the brakes when we had the chance...