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...could go off without warning. With wide-scale production of an H5N1 human vaccine several months away at the earliest, experts are urging governments to clean up poultry farming and transportation, reassess live-market practices and intensify disease surveillance in birds and humans. "We must face the problem, not avoid it," says Yi-or the problem will face us soon enough...
...Iraq still unfolding and the U.S. electorate so divided, that's especially true. With the Democratic convention just two weeks away, Kerry and Edwards are focused on defining themselves and selling their campaign as an upbeat "celebration of American values." So for now, they'd just as soon avoid the issue of the war (which both supported) and let others carry the attack against Bush. Michael Moore is happy to offer his services. Fahrenheit 9/11, his new Bush-bashing movie, has generated more heat than any attack ad the Democrats could possibly dream up. In effect, the provocateur has become...
...Britain, where taxes and spending were slashed by Margaret Thatcher two decades ago, some are outraged at a 40% rise in central-government administration costs over the past five years - more than three times the inflation rate. In France, dozens of successful businesspeople have quit the country to avoid a steep wealth tax that Eric Pichet, a business-school professor in Bordeaux, estimates has resulted in €100 billion of assets leaving France - robbing twice as much revenue as the wealth tax generates. Among the advocates for change is Paul Kirchhof, a former judge at Germany's Federal Constitutional Court...
...winter's lethal outbreak. Professor Yi Guan of the University of Hong Kong worries that H5N1 is evolving so fast that it may gain the ability to infect humans simply by mutating on its own. "We must face the problem, not avoid it," says Yi - or the problem will face us soon enough. - By Bryan Walsh. With reporting by Matthew Forney Sentence Shelved SWEDEN A Stockholm appeals court overturned the life sentence of Mijailo Mijailovic, the convicted murderer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, ruling that he should instead be sent to a psychiatric unit for treatment. The court upheld...
...website offers nine general tips to avoid all of the conditions it deals with, including maintaining a healthy weight, taking a multivitamin with folate every day and exercising regularly...