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...influenza team. By the weekend, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were still studying the viral samples, trying to determine whether the virus had mutated significantly?or worse, reassorted with a human flu. The latter would be alarming, notes WHO avian-flu expert Dr. Hiroshi Oshitani, but it wouldn't automatically mean the virus had hit upon the right combination to start a pandemic...
...missiles might be emotionally satisfying and politically compelling in Taiwan," says James Mulvenon, an Asia expert at the Rand Corp., "but they are not in the U.S. national interest." Michael A. McDevitt, a retired U.S. Navy admiral who is now with the CNA Corp., a Virginia-based think tank, says the deterrent effect is also questionable: Beijing is unlikely to be cowed if it really wants to invade. Offensive missiles for Taiwan are "really stupid," McDevitt says. That's one analysis the U.S. and China can probably agree...
Attorneys in the first-degree murder trial of Alexander Pring-Wilson attempted to bolster claims that he acted in self-defense with expert testimony on Friday from doctors who said Pring-Wilson suffered a concussion the night of the incident...
...important philosophical, spiritual and social implications," caused Harvard to consider censure, but a committee later "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom." DIED. RICHARD AVEDON, 81, celebrated art and fashion photographer; of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Antonio, Texas. DIED. KATHARINA DALTON, 87, British gynecologist and early expert on premenstrual syndrome; in Britain. She began studying the connection between the menstrual cycle and behavioral swings when, as a pregnant medical student, she noticed that her premenstrual migraines had subsided. She gave the syndrome its name and treated sufferers with progesterone therapy, a regimen that was later rejected by most...
...crossfire before. A series of violent attacks in the past decade has forced school administrators to take preventive action against an array of threats - from vandals and burglars to murderers and terrorists. "School-related terrorism incidents are extremely rare, but they do occur," says Michael Dorn, a school security expert with Jane's Information Group who is writing a book about terrorism in schools. Protestants left pipe bombs near a Catholic school in Belfast in 2001 and 2003. Last November, arsonists set fire to a new wing of an Orthodox Jewish school in Gagny, a suburb east of Paris. Sixteen...