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[Msnbc.msn.com] The same old big-government song - Glenn Reynolds - MSNBC.com: Europe's problem is that it wants two inconsistent things.  Some Europeans -- the ruling classes, basically -- care about prestige, and want Europe to be a superpower that can compete with the United States, returning to Europe some of the world-dominating glory that it lost in the 20th Century's world wars.  Others -- the working classes, basically -- want the kind of easy life, low workload, and overarching social safety net, developed when Europe was an American protectorate, whose enormous and growing cost makes any sort of superpower status a pipedream.  To be a superpower like America, Europe would have to become more like America in other ways:  Harder-working, more capitalistic, less cushioned.  After decades of being told that Europe's superiority was to be found in generous welfare benefits and short work-weeks, Europeans chose those over their leaders' geopolitical ambitions.

[Anti-ageing.us] Anti-Aging Medicine & Science Blog: Avian Flu: Recent Post At ...: Assess your hormone levels with convenient and accurate mail-in saliva tests to refine and enhance your health and age management supplement program. The advent of non-prescription hormone supplementation has made it necessary to obtain an accurate picture of hormone levels within the body. Restoring hormones in the body to more youthful levels can elicit improved health and vitality. One of the most effective methods of ascertaining current hormone levels in the body is with a salivary test.

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[Girlscientist.blogspot.com] Living the Scientific Life (or Scientist, Interrupted): Public ...: The current form of avian influenza in Asia is unique: this virus surprised health officials by developing a limited ability to cross the “species barrier” between birds and humans without relying on pigs as intermediaries and without first undergoing a genetic reassortment. In fact, until 1997, avian influenza had never been known to directly infect humans, but in that year an outbreak of Avian Influenza type A subtype H5N1 infected 18 people in Hong Kong, killing six of them. But fortunately, this virus could not spread easily between humans, so it did not result in a pandemic. Similarly, another outbreak of H5N1 Avian Influenza in humans in late 2003 and early 2004 did not cause a pandemic mainly because it also could not spread easily from person to person.

[Pookaibooks.org] Santepheap - The Cambodia Weblog: Sounding the Alarm on the Avian Flu: Nature magazine offers a special issue on bird flu that warns everyone that this little disease that is coalescing in Southeast Asia could explode. It uses a fictional Weblog that peers into the future. Definitely worth a read.

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