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		<title>The Fear Factor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the PDF On April 21st, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that two children in Southern California had developed a &#8220;febrile respiratory illness&#8221; caused by a flu virus that had never before been recognized in humans. The C.D.C. referred to the infection, in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Foot</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the PDF In measuring carbon emissions, it&#39;s easy to confuse morality and science. by Michael Specter A little more than a year ago, Sir Terry Leahy, who is the chief executive of the Tesco chain of supermarkets, Britain&#8217;s largest retailer, delivered a speech to a group called the Forum for the Future, about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin&#8217;s Surprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the PDF Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct deadly viruses? by Michael Specter Thierry Heidmann&#8217;s office, adjacent to the laboratory he runs at the Institut Gustave Roussy, on the southern edge of Paris, could pass for a museum of genetic catastrophe. Files devoted to the world&#8217;s most horrifying infectious diseases fill the cabinets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reporter at Large &#8211; Political Science</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the PDFThe Bush Administration&#39;s war on the laboratory. by Michael Specter On December 1st, Merck &#38; Company applied to the Food and Drug Administration for a license to sell a vaccine that it has developed to protect women against the human papillomavirus. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the PDF How the songs of canaries upset a fundamental principle of science. by Michael Specter Fernando Nottebohm has lived transfixed by the melodies of songbirds. He is sixty now, and it has been decades since he left the plains of Argentina&#8211;first to study agriculture in Nebraska, then zoology at Berkeley, before coming to [...]]]></description>
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