Month: October 2005

Construction
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If Florence was in the grip of an epidemic of colds, coughs and fevers, astrologers . . . declared that it was caused by the influence of an unusual conjunction of planets. This sickness . . . came gradually to be known as “influenza.”

Chronicles of a Florentine Family 1200-1470.Time, June 24, 1957, p. 80

Americans fearful of bird flu are peppering health officials with all sorts of questions: Is it safe to have a bird feeder in my yard? If I see a dead bird, should I report it? Is it still OK to have turkey at Thanksgiving?

The answers are yes, no, and yes.

Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been handling an avalanche of phone calls from the public and the media.

“It’s been insane,” said Dave Daigle, a spokesman for the CDC, which has been getting an average of 447,000 hits a day on its avian flu information Web page.
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And bird flu isn’t even here. It is just now infecting poultry in eastern Europe. So far, it almost never spreads between humans and in two years has infected 117 people, all in Asia. More than 60 have died.

Influenza activity was reported as sporadic in 4 states (California, Hawaii, Michigan, and Pennsylvania), New York City, and Puerto Rico. Forty-four states reported no influenza activity, and 2 states and the District of Columbia did not report.

Do we have enough vaccine? The CDC will keep you posted.

This site is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of information about Bix Beiderbecke, the musical genius from Davenport, Iowa.

A very complete collection.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Pumpkins.

How can we call ourselves a civilized nation after carving and then displaying the grotesque corpses of pumpkins on our stoops?

http://www.geocities.com/petpu4/

Do you complain about gravity? If not, why not? I mean, it is the source of so many frustrations — scraped knees when you trip and fall, body parts that sag as you age, trees that crash and damage property during thunderstorms.

Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst (sm), explains.

If national stereotypes aren’t rooted in real experiences, then where do they come from?

One possibility is that they reflect national values, which may emerge from historical events. For example, many historians have argued that the spirit of American individualism has its origins in the experiences of the pioneers in the Old West.

Social scientists such as psychologist Richard Robins have proposed several other possible explanations for stereotypes and why they may be inaccurate. In a commentary that accompanies the Science study, Robins notes that some stereotypes may have been accurate at one point in history and then persisted while the culture changed.

The purpose of this project is to recover the history of the border agricultural workers, from their origins in rural Mexico, to the agricultural fields of America. This history has been ignored by both countries. Close to 5 million braceros helped this country, yet nobody remembers them. Once they were no longer needed in the United States, the Mexicans who participated in the Bracero Program had to return to their homelands without ever receiving, to this day, recognition for their valuable contribution.

We need to control our borders, but it is always a good idea to learn some history before making new laws.

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