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...from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention generated artificially combined H5N1 and H3N2 viruses in a lab, but the resulting hybrids were all less deadly than the original bird flu strain. That led to hopes that the H5N1 virus simply lacked the ability to be a true pandemic killer and that to become more transmissible, it would necessarily have to become less dangerous...
...Hood inquiry is of a piece with that mind-set. Instead of exploring how to safeguard the mental health of service members, the inquiry demonstrates that the military has still not come to terms with the core issue: how best to prevent a troubled soldier from becoming an unlawful killer. Until it does that, any steps recommended to prevent another Nidal Malik Hasan or another Steven Green will be half measures at best...
...movie will have earned $40.2 million in its first three days. That's the biggest debut weekend for any Scorsese picture (The Departed was his previous top opener), and any DiCaprio (yes, including Titanic). Turns out the R-rated whodunit - with Leo playing a U.S. marshal searching for a killer in an insane asylum - benefited from an effective ad spot on the Super Bowl and a week with no other new films in wide release. Scorsese's very limited competition came from fellow world-class auteur Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, another conspiracy thriller set on a windy Massachusetts...
...Barry Mizen, whose 16-year-old son Jimmy was murdered in 2008, says his family endured months of personal attacks on a Facebook page that was created after Jimmy's killer, Jake Fahri, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last March. "The words going back and forth were getting really nasty - it was just so undignified," says Mizen, who lives in southeast England. "My children were taking it very personally." Around the same time, taunting messages also started to come from Fahri's Twitter account, including one that said, "Jimmy Mizen was a pathetic loser." "There...
...only happening on the battlefield. Last month, Army Secretary John McHugh ordered an "accountability review" to determine if Army officers flubbed their supervision of alleged Fort Hood killer Major Nidal Hasan by ignoring warning signs of his growing Islamic radicalization. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the Army plans to discipline at least six officers for their negligence in the case in coming days...