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If there’s a blessing in the current swine flu epidemic, it’s how benign the illness seems to be outside the central disease cluster in Mexico. But history offers a dark warning to anyone ready to write off the 2009 H1N1 virus.
In each of the four major pandemics since 1889, a spring wave of relatively mild [...]

(CNN) — Adam Wilson posted two messages on Twitter on April 15. The first one, “GO BADGERS,” might have been sent by any University of Wisconsin-Madison student cheering for the school team.
His second post, 20 minutes later, was a little more unusual: “SPELLING WITH MY BRAIN.”
Wilson, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, was confirming an [...]

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — Two Japanese destroyers set sail Saturday on an anti-piracy mission off Somalia, the Japanese defense ministry said, marking the first policing action for the country’s Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Because of restrictions in Japan’s constitution, the nation’s military is limited to a “self-defense” role.
The Japanese Cabinet approved the mission Friday. The MSDF’s major [...]

Ann Holmes Redding has what could be called a crisis of faiths.
For nearly 30 years, Redding has been an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church. Her priesthood ended Wednesday when she was defrocked.
The reason? For the past three years Redding has been both a practicing Christian and a Muslim.
“Had anyone told me in February 2006 [...]

Washington D.C. – Tuesday, January 20 – A Milestone in history, the inauguration of the United State first African American President, Barack Obama. During his first week he like every previous president created his cabinet and made his first orders. Although Tuesday was a celebration day, he did make some upcoming announcements of what [...]