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| Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:00:00 EST Two Turkish teenagers are thought to have died of bird flu |
| A Turkish teenager whose brother died of bird flu also succumbed to the disease today, a Turkish doctor said, as authorities tried to determine if the siblings had contracted the worrisome H5N1 strain of the virus. If so, the brother and sister would be the first people to die outside eastern Asia in the latest outbreak of the H5N1 strain. Preliminary tests in Turkey indicated they had the strain, and samples were being sent to a British lab for confirmation. |
| Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:00:00 EST Worrying lyrics for the home-alone generation |
| A New York Times column by David Brooks put me on to an intriguing article in Policy Review by Mary Eberstadt, a fellow at the Hoover Institution. |
| Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:00:00 EST Helpful lessons for the terrorists |
| Orin Kerr, blogging on one of my favorite sites, the Volokh Conspiracy, stayed up until 3 a.m. reading and then analyzing the new James Risen book (State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration) on its day of publication. His remarkably sophisticated look at the legal issues is here. |
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| Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:29:30 EST Airstrike hits wrong house; kills 6 civilians, U.S. says |
| A bomb that killed six civilians Monday near Baiji, Iraq, missed its target by 65 feet and hit the wrong home, military officials said. The airstrike was aimed at a building into which three men had entered after apparently planting a roadside bomb as a U.S. unmanned surveillance plane watched unnoticed from above, the officials added. |
| Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:25:52 EST Mine survivor suffering oxygen deprivation |
| The sole survivor from a mine explosion that killed 12 co-workers was transferred Thursday to a Pittsburgh hospital so he can have specialized treatment for oxygen deprivation. Randy McCloy Jr. remains in a coma, and doctors believe his brain is injured. "There is a medical reason (for the coma). We don't know what it is," said Dr. John Prescott, of the West Virginia School of Medicine. Meanwhile, it emerged some of his co-workers wrote notes to loved ones before dying. |
| Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:08:24 EST Pat Robertson suggests God smote Sharon |
| Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed. |
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