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Fight or Flight

Everyone’s Wild About Tami

After months of near-silence, bird flu is back on the West’s front pages. But where is government preparedness, asks BRUCE MURPHY, now that the drug of choice in the virus war turns out to have spawned resistant strains? (Fight or Flight | February 7, 2007)

No Man Is an Island

Considering what may lie ahead otherwise, no amount of money is too great to devote to the fight against avian flu. But while everybody’s spending against each other’s contingency plans, BRUCE MURPHY argues, we’re all left risking something too precious to lose. (Fight or Flight | June 12, 2006)

An Ounce of Prevention

We don’t yet know whether the avian flu will become a pandemic. So why are we preparing for a plague instead of fighting the virus where it currently rages—in the animal kingdom? Conflicting reports and strategies still march on, but time may be running out, says BRUCE MURPHY. (Fight or Flight | May 9, 2006)


TODAY’S FEATURE

Are Your Cats Really Adorable or Just Regular Adorable?

Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. According to CHOIRE SICHA, this year’s census has 50 questions you may not see coming.

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

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Two beheadings and a smart doctor lie at the heart of Frank Tallis's Vienna Secrets.

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