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| Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: A giant's growing pains |
| Here's a piquant illustration of how China is emerging as a global economic and military superpower. The College Board asked a group of American high schools across the country to consider adding Advanced Placement courses in Russian, Japanese, Italian, and Chinese. Ten times the number of schools opted for Chinese over the other three languages. |
| Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:00:00 EST Bernadine Healy, M.D.: Let's talk Turkey |
| The greatest worry about the latest bird flu news is not that the H5N1 virus has taken root beyond eastern Asia into multiple provinces of Turkey. No, the real issue is that the deadly H5N1 virus seems to be changing its stripes. What's evident from the Turkish outbreak is that the virus is being more rapidly and efficiently transmitted from birds to humans than has been seen in the past. We don't know why. But preliminary studies of the genetic makeup of samples of the deadly virus last week confirm that the virus is mutating in a way that could make it an even more serious threat to human health. |
| Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:00:00 EST With baby and mother dummies, Paul Preston directs a labor-and-delivery rehearsal that's become a smash hit; Preston in brief |
| The staff in operating room 2 is performing a C-section one morning last month at the Kaiser Permanente hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif. "Baby's out at 9:50 a.m.!" says the obstetrician. "I'm going to clamp the cord." No one hears anesthesiologist Helen O'Keeffe: "I have a rising CO 2 here! I need help!" O'Keeffe shouts again: "I'm really having a problem here!" |
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