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...fact, we likely face a bigger threat from viruses today than ever before. For nearly all of human history, the fastest way to travel was by horseback, and contagious diseases could only spread from town to town by piggybacking on migratory animals or unlucky travelers. Despite these difficulties, the Black Death in Europe was still able to kill between 30 and 60 percent of Europe’s population. The forward march of science around the globe has helped keep disease at bay through vaccinations, good hygiene, and quarantines, but international air travel gives upstart pathogens hoping...
...most egregious of these omissions is the fact that today’s GOP is but a phantom of its former self. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Apr. 26, while 35 percent of Americans identify themselves as Democratic and 38 percent as independent, only 21 percent of Americans currently identify themselves as Republican. Like some grotesque Russian-nested doll, the Republican coalition has been losing constituencies one by one, so that now only the most virulently reactionary elements of its base remain...
Thomas is also charged with the rape and murder of Elizabeth McKeown, 67, in Westchester in 1976. And detectives believe that not only is he likely connected to additional murders, but he may in fact be the infamous "Westside Rapist" who terrorized the county in the 1970s. Cases associated with the Westside Rapist investigation with available, if partial, DNA profiles appear to match Thomas' DNA. At a news conference on April 30, police said they plan to file charges against Thomas for three Inglewood slayings 33 years ago, including that of Maybelle Hudson, and that they are combing through cold...
Specter, Sen. Arlen •blatant opportunism of is portrayed as somehow principled, and much is made of fabulous new Democratic advantage when in fact absolutely nothing has changed regarding votes of and, if anything, the chance for a real Democrat to win the seat of has now been eliminated - brilliant strategy, Biden and Reid...
...Souter himself hadn't hidden from the new Administration his desire to leave. Outsiders had picked up indications: though Souter has always been the last of his colleagues to choose his clerks for the next term, court watchers had focused with increasing interest on the fact that Souter, alone among the justices, still not yet finalized his picks as of late April...