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...migratory bird routes, the country has known for months that it was vulnerable to the natural spread of the disease. Last May, the Turkish Agriculture Ministry warned provincial officials to ban live-poultry markets. Few did. Then in October, 1,800 turkeys died on a farm near a wild-bird sanctuary in the northwest of the country. The area was swiftly quarantined, infected birds were culled and farms were disinfected efficiently enough to calm fears of a major outbreak. But in mid-December, when the Agriculture Ministry looked into the first reports of bird flu among fowl...
...meanwhile, the virus may already be endemic: a permanent presence that would constantly threaten to invade Europe in the future. Even if everyone has learned the lessons of previous health and food-safety crises such as mad-cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease, avian flu defies traditional responses. Wild birds don't stop for quarantine controls, and they don't recognize borders...
...hello to skiing's wild child, a mountain prodigy who grew up plumbing-free, electricity-free and constraint-free in a house hand-built by his parents in a forest near Franconia, N.H. As a kid, Miller spent as many winter hours skiing at nearby Cannon Mountain as he did in the classroom. In his teens, he was all but dismissed as being uncoachable. But, last year his World Cup triumph was the first by an American in 22 years. His prowess is such that he could win a medal in any of five Alpine skiing events at the Olympic...
...WILD WEST No calorie counting. No points. No weighing. No measuring. No obsessing about low-carb or low-fat foods. Just small portions of sun-drenched, California-style cuisine, accompanied by red or white wine. Think gourmet, not gourmand. BUZZWORDS: Waves; Power Foods; Mediterranean Diet...
GRIZZLY MAN WERNER HERZOG For a darker parable of nature, attend the poignant, unsettling tale of Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers among the wild bears of southern Alaska, until he and his girlfriend were mauled to pieces. With the aid of more than 90 hours of Treadwell's video footage, plus interviews with those who knew him, Herzog gets into the mind of a man who thought his nearness to the bears was a triumph of cross-species symbiosis, when in fact he was tempting the fate he eventually, tragically achieved...