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According to a leaked copy of a recent federal report, a major Asian outbreak of human flu could reach the U.S. in a matter of weeks, and, according to Forbes.com, “could lead to the deaths of 1.9 million Americans and the hospitalization of 8.5 million more people with costs exceeding $450 billion.” Such a scenario now seems vastly more likely with the discovery, last week, that the avian flu virus can mutate independently to become a lethal strain to humans...
...bitter Siberian winter approaches, millions of wild birds heading across the Urals toward Africa stop off at the protected wetlands site at Lake Manyas in Asian Turkey. That may explain why, not far away at a farm in Kiziksa, 1,700 turkeys died this month. Scientists confirmed they were infected with H5N1, the avian influenza strain responsible for 60 human deaths in Asia since 2003. Experts now fear the virus is inexorably winging its way toward Europe. Turkish authorities quickly imposed a quarantine around the infected farm, culling 8,600 birds. But another H5N1 outbreak hit Romania's Danube delta...
...aging. Defending our social model doesn't necessarily mean working harder or taking fewer holidays, but it does mean working later in life, providing more opportunities for women and, especially, much better education and training. The real threat to European well-being isn't Polish plumbers, it's Asian software engineers and scientists. On the whole, European universities are underfunded and not well managed. We're so snooty about the U.S. and its alleged meretricious consumerism. But they're investing twice as much in knowledge as we do, which is really their investment in the next generation. How does this...
...make headlines. But plenty is at stake. Over the past few years, a centuries-old rivalry between China and Japan has flared anew. While the two countries are increasingly interdependent economically, relations remain uncomfortably strained as fast-growing China begins to challenge Japan as the preeminent East Asian power. This spring, for example, anti-Japan riots erupted in a number of Chinese cities, and diplomatic disputes over natural-gas-field rights in the East China Sea continue to rage...
...given China possible access to European high technology in space with potential military applications," says Axel Berkofsky, senior policy analyst at the European Policy Center in Brussels. And although manned space flight is reputed to be an inefficient way to develop military prowess, a recent study by the East Asian nonproliferation project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies concluded that the Shenzhou program has improved China's imaging and reconnaissance capabilities, as well as the maneuverability of its satellites. A 2001 Pentagon report declared that the militarization of space was inevitable and that China would...