| U.S. flu season worsens as new vaccines ordered
In brief, seasonal influenza activity has increased during the past week," Cox told reporters in a telephone briefing. Flu has killed 22 children so far this season, Cox said. She did not have details on any of the cases. Cox said the CDC was watching the epidemic and asking state health departments to collect data on who gets sick, whether the were vaccinated, and whether influenza drugs were effective in fighting the infections. Several European countries have reported that people are becoming infected with strains that resist the effects of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug made by Roche AG and Gilead Sciences. Cox said the CDC had seen little evidence that flu was resisting Tamiflu in the United States. "We have actually seen antiviral resistance only sporadically in eight states," she said. Continued...
Update: Library Has 10 Copies of "Water for Elephants"
Angel: I was in this accident. It involved a nissan, a ford explorer, a geo tracker and a mini-van. The tracker flipped and hit the van (which we were riding in). The driver of the tracker (which rolled over) crawled out the passenger side window and walked to the opposite side of the road, he was taken to the hospital for evaluation. The driver of the explorer was very depressed about the accident, the driver of the nissan and her passengers (two teen girls and a teen boy) were upset as well. No idea who caused the accident due to the fact that everyone was hitting their brakes pretty hard. The passengers of the mini van 7 in all (myself included) have whiplash and minor cuts and bruises. DFO: Huckleberries Online first reported this accident, off the police scanner, at 11:32 a.m.
Obama's victories draw more voter groups as Democrats waver
To clarify how Obama treats race, just look at his website, in the category of African-Americans. Says it all. Look through the pages. The reliance on proxies like his wife is photographically documented. His rhetorical reliance on blackness is apparent on the first page, where front and center feature words who's author is no doubt Axelrod: There is no better advocate for African Americans than Barack Obama. Barack knows your story, because it is his story. The causes that you hold dear have been the causes of his life. Barack has spent his entire career fighting for justice — as a community organizer in the streets of the South Side of Chicago, as a civil rights attorney, a constitutional law professor, an Illinois state Senator and a U.S. Senator. In Chicago Obama was charge with rape when he was 17 years old charges droped after his dad payed off some cops ???? Crucial to Obama's primary success, are his advisers unabashed beliefs that they can turn our hopes and emotions to their advantage.
Master Naturalists Hear Call of the Great Outdoors
Volunteer opportunities include helping at nature centers and parks, at plantings or in one of the many wildlife projects we do, he said. Just to name a few, were helping reforest the Bahia Grande, weve revegetated Ramsey Park in Harlingen with over 3,000 native plants, and we play an important role in taking sea turtle eggs to a coastal laboratory and releasing them into the water when they hatch. Mattei said the possibilities to explore and help nurture the great outdoors are endless. We do so much that the prospects for interacting with nature are as numerous as they are satisfying, she said. Jointly sponsored by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and Texas Parks and Wildlife, the Texas Master Naturalist program begins with a 40-hour training course that includes classes and field trips.
50,000 trees planted in Trinity River wildlife refuge
For a partnership looking for ways to improve the Houston area's environment, the math made sense. First, plant 50,000 seedling trees on 158 acres of logged pasture in the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge east of Houston. In return, the restored forest will remove carbon dioxide a potent greenhouse gas linked to global warming equivalent to what 3,000 average Americans use in fossil fuels in a year. The $250,000 project was completed this month by five corporate and nonprofit groups who partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which runs the 23,000-acre reserve on the Trinity River in Liberty County. The other participants include Dell Inc.; Travelocity; NBC Universal; Environmental Synergy Inc., a reforestation company based in Atlanta; and The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit environmental group, based near Washington, D.C.
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