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...inside. "This has not caught us by surprise," said Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner, Markos Kyprianou. "[We] have been preparing for a possible outbreak for some time." Amid warnings that H5N1 has "pandemic potential" if it becomes easily transmissible to humans, farmers and poultry workers were urged to pay extra attention to hygiene. But experts said people have nothing to fear from eating eggs or processed poultry products - or from bird watching. In Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke his Ramadan fast by eating chicken salad...
...handed grip has motion and position sensors, so if you're playing a Ping-Pong game, you just flick the controller like a paddle. Or, to shoot, take aim and tap a button. For more elaborate games, a second piece with analog stick and two triggers (for that extra itchy finger) can be connected...
...among U.S. teens and adults that could be prevented each year with a booster vaccination. Most children, for whom the long-lasting coughing illness can be fatal, get several pertussis shots by age 6, but immunity wears off. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says one extra shot for teens and adults would do the trick...
...contemporary culture. Music is important, of course, but the scale is different. In a typical week, a top-selling album may move 300,000 copies. A top-rated TV show can draw an audience of 30 million. Add to that movie trailers, animated shorts, old syndicated shows, DVD-extra-style exclusives, and the entire television industry, which is hungry for new kinds of revenue, is going to have to reorient itself. And maybe a few other industries besides (cough! porn! cough...
...range of new drinks, including three energy boosters, a Splenda-sweetened Diet Coke and a zero-calorie soda. It's diving deeper into an alternative beverage market flooded with novel brands, from energy drinks and flavored teas to fruity milk and canned coffee. And in pumping an extra $400 million into the company's global marketing budget for its 400 drinks, Isdell has made it clear that he has no intention of letting the world's most valuable nameplate (worth $67.5 billion, according to Interbrand) slip in the eyes of consumers...