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...know. Officially, the government says it is waiting for the last in a series of tests to confirm that a 14-month-old boy died Sept. 5 of H5N1 bird flu. Yet one Vietnamese health official told TIME the real cause for the delay is the desire to avoid a fresh bird-flu controversy before an Asian-European summit in Hanoi next month. "For the time being, we are just identifying it as flu type A H5 and we don't plan to identify what strain it is," says Tran Duc Long, deputy legal director at the Ministry of Health...
...report raised other issues for consideration in the future: more room for Social Studies offices; a need for an overall audit of student office space on campus; and coordinating the renovations with those of the Malkin Athletic Center and Loker Commons to avoid duplicity...
...spending and make prudent use of our resources” in his 2004 report. Hoffman-Bray told The Crimson last February she was confident that FAS would not run a deficit this year, emphasizing that a concentrated effort from the Faculty to limit expenses would be required to avoid such an outcome...
...minutes it appeared that the Crimson players might be able to avoid the same frustration that they felt after their season opening loss to Portland...
...written." Determined to set foreigners straight about his adopted home, Clarke began compiling anecdotes. But he wanted a sexier protagonist than himself, so he opted for fiction and invented Paul West, "a cross between Hugh Grant and David Beckham." He also wanted to hide behind a pseudonym, not to avoid trouble with his employers, "but because if the book failed, I'd look like an idiot." That danger having receded, Clarke is using his own name for the U.K. edition. "I was a little worried when I started giving readings in Paris, since I'm clearly not 27," he says...