Pandemic influenza potentially poses a much greater threat than SARS. Such pandemics occur on average around three times a century, when a strain of avian influenza acquires the ability to infect and pass efficiently between humans59. Since 1997, when the H5N1 strain of the influenza virus was isolated in humans, it has caused at least [...]
The farm owner knocked on my door
The farm owner knocked on my door and I invited him in.
“You’ve got it nice in here,” he said. “Yes, sir, you’ve got it nice.”He slipped in the seat beside the table. This table can be low-ered at night and the cushions can be convened to make a double [...]
The summer semester was in full tide
The summer semester was in full tide: consequently the most frequent figure in and about Heidelberg was the sliidcnt. Most of the students w ere Germans, of course, but the representatives of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in [...]
On hearing of his sentence
On hearing of his sentence, one of them, a stout-hearted man, pulled out his handkerchief and walked away, weeping like a child. Slatlc still begged to sec his wife, most pitcousty, antl it seemed hart! to deny his request; bur the bloody consequences that were sure to follow- the inevitable attempt [...]
Mr. Wolley proposed at first to send to the inn in Muonioniska
Mr. Wolley proposed at first to send to the inn in Muonioniska, and engage a room, but after-wards arranged with a Norsk carpenter, who lived on the hill above, to give us quarters in his house, so that we might be near enough to [...]
The growing convergence of U.S. and European interests
The growing convergence of U.S. and European interests around the need to generate development through technical assistance programs played an important role in fostering the creation of a series of interna-tional organizations during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Founded in the context of European reconstruction and the [...]
This latter part of my account of K’tut Tantri’s his-tories
This latter part of my account of K’tut Tantri’s his-tories is, thus, especially autobiographical because our lives became, in a small way, intertwined and complicated by the ethical problems of biographer and subject.James Walter has explained one reason why public figures so often resist the probing [...]
