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Currently reading: Emerging Viruses - Stephen S. Morse, ed.
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Science Daily News Feed New Scientist News on KurzweilAI.net BGG’s Pandora America’s Finest News SourceQ fever, a fairly rare disease caused by the rickettsia Coxiella burnetii has infected a number of people working in a meat processing plant in Scotland. Symptoms are flu-like, with high fever, headache, and pneumonia prominent. It can last for up to three weeks, and may have a high mortality rate if [...]
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In-your-face trailer for movie “Young Americans” and other clips at this site by Pat Dollard, independent filmmaker who spent time in Iraq with, obviously, young Americans.
Warning, trailer is nonstop profanity and some gore…pulls no punches getting its point across. Commentary on culture shock and disillusionment our soldiers deal with. Saw it on Blackfive.
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