Pakistan the imponderable — The Washington Times
Bill Clinton’s description of Pakistan during his last year in the White House was and still is accurate: “The most dangerous place in the world.” Who gets control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal after the Musharraf political era remains unanswerable.
Old & and New World Birds don’t normally share Flu
“Even though the big flyway maps look like they overlap, the birds themselves don’t,” says Dr. William Karesh, director of the field veterinary program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Gene studies of avian-flu strains from the past 30 years seem to confirm that, with no evident commingling among the viruses. “The birds of the New World and the birds of the Old World don’t share their viruses,” Karesh says. “That doesn’t mean it’s impossible. That would be irresponsible. But it doesn’t happen normally.”
In any event, most commercial chicken houses (where the birds spend their entire lives indoors) have no contact with migratory birds. Even free-range chickens are generally not clucking all over hither and yon and so can easily be brought indoors if need be. That still leaves the exotic-pet market (legal and illegal) and the illegal importation of poultry products. (Full Article)
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Listen as you create your own Indian Music
Internet blows CIA covers
Google Mars
In case you’re planning a trip – Google Maps for Mars
Why blokes barbecue: ancient embers reveal all
Hussein Saw Iraqi Unrest as Top Threat
Hussein Saw Iraqi Unrest as Top Threat – New York Times
What was going behind the scenes in Baghdad, during the war.
And Saddam’s subsequent desperate escape and our blind pursuit
A Sharp Debate Erupts in China Over Ideologies
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BEIJING, March 11 — For the first time in perhaps a decade, the National People’s Congress, the Communist Party-run legislature now convened in its annual two-week session, is consumed with an ideological debate over socialism and capitalism that many assumed had been buried by China’s long streak of fast economic growth.
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Enter Your Phone Number to see what it spellsDrive through Paris @ 140mph Video
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted
a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a
friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed
through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons
to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre,
to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.
No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.
The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly
140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red
lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up
real one-way streets.
Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was
arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the
film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.