US Wants Help From Pakistani Tribal Leaders (Scoop.co.nz)
The Spanish flu pandemic was truly global, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. The unusually severe disease killed between 2 and 20% of those infected, as opposed to the more usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%. Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65, and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. This is unusual since influenza is normally most deadly to the very young (under age 2) and the very old (over age 70). The total mortality of the 1918–1919 pandemic is not known, but it is estimated that 2.5% to 5% of the world's population was killed. As many as 25 million may have been killed in the first 25 weeks; in contrast, HIV/AIDS has killed 25 million in its first 25 years.
US Wants Help From Pakistani Tribal Leaders (Scoop.co.nz)
The U.S. Defense Department says a series of ideas for a new effort to try to get Pakistani tribal leaders to cooperate in the fight against terrorists is just a staff document and is far from any senior level consideration. The document was quoted in Monday's New York Times.
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ASIA: IRIN-ASIA Weekly round-up 150 for 12 – 18 November 2007 (AlertNet)
Source: IRIN CONTENTS: AFGHANISTAN: Insecurity stops food aid to a Daykundi district AFGHANISTAN: Six million schoolchildren to receive landmine coaching AFGHANISTAN: Fifth least developed country in the world
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Andy Borowitz Archives (Jewish World Review)
11/14/07 : Hillary Refuses to answer paper-or-plastic question 10/30/07 : Hillary to spend rest of campaign in soundproof glass box 10/09/07 : In sign of confidence, Clinton airs vicious attack ads about herself 09/26/07 : New CBS Reality Show Sends Kids to Guantanamo 09/25/07 : O.J. Seeks his old jury 09/11/07 : Hedge fund managers march on Washington 07/30/07 : McCain Puts Straight Talk ...
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A dictator is the bet of the day (Crikey)
I read somewhere once a learned article by an academic who asserted that people normally were far too optimistic in believing that dictators would soon get their comeuppance and be removed by the good forces of democracy.
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The barometer (CNN.com)
It was a bad week...
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Pakistani Officials Prepare Caretaker Government (Scoop.co.nz)
Pakistani officials are finalizing plans for a caretaker government that will succeed the current parliament and oversee January elections. While President Pervez Musharraf tries to make the elections appear credible despite emergency rule, his opponents are busy uniting against him.
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The CNN Wire: Tuesday, Nov. 13 (CNN.com)
Coalition, Afghan forces arrest suspected insurgent, free 7 Taliban hostages in southern Afghanistan
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At-a-glance: Wednesday at Westminster (BBC News)
An easy-to-use daily guide to all that is happening in Parliament and on BBC political programmes.
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The CNN Wire: Monday, Nov. 12 (CNN.com)
Bhutto: 'It's time for him to leave.'
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Asean to promote nuclear energy (The Manila Times)
SINGAPORE: Southeast Asian leaders will promote the use of civilian nuclear power, along with other alternative energy sources, when they meet in Singapore next week, a draft statement obtained Tuesday said.
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US Wants Help From Pakistani Tribal Leaders (Scoop.co.nz)
The etiological cause of influenza, the Orthomyxoviridae family of viruses, was first discovered in pigs by Richard Schope in 1931. This discovery was shortly followed by the isolation of the virus from humans by a group headed by Patrick Laidlaw at the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom in 1933. However, it was not until Wendell Stanley first crystallized tobacco mosaic virus in 1935 that the non-cellular nature of viruses was appreciated.
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