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Science ran a multiple story overview of WHO’s handling of the SARS epidemic in 2003 — which essentially concludes that, despite significant advances in biotechnology, the world’s sociopolitical and public health infrastructure is still unlikely to act with ideal efficiency in response to a pandemic today 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citations Martin Enserink, War Stories, Science 339(6125): 1264-1268, DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6125.1264 (15 March 2013) Martin Enserink, SARS: Chronology of the Epidemic, Science 339(6125): 1266- 1271, DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6125.1266 (15 March 2013) Dennis Normile, Understanding the Enemy, Science 339(6125): 1269-1273, DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6125.1269 (15 March 2013) Dennis Normile, The Metropole, Superspreaders, and Other Mysteries, Science [...]

National interest analysis from General Wesley Clark favors not intervening in Libya 0

This is not a difficult question, provided one knows a little history — General Clark does and opposes intervention in Libya General Clark briefly reviews U.S. military interventions since Vietnam and concludes: We don’t have a clearly stated objective, legal authority, committed international support or adequate on-the-scene military capabilities, and Libya’s politics hardly foreshadow a [...]

An interesting perspective on the Baby Boomer Generation from Atlantic editor Michael Kinsley 0

We Boomers may not have been such an awful generation, after all Michael Kinsley, a senior editor at The Atlantic, came up with a novel perspective of the post-War generation.  He contrasted Boomers with their parents, whom Tom Brokaw called “The Greatest Generation.” Extracts from Kinsley’s essay include: It was the Boomers, not the Greats, [...]