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IIRC, that's because around 15 years ago Congress (thinking they were helping out the poor lowly vitamin farmer?) forbade the FDA from regulating...
Very cool; thanks for explaining your background. I hadn't considered the effect of even common illness on emergency response before. As I am...
Well that just makes me hungry for "H1N1." Knew I shouldn't have skipped breakfast.
Rimrocker, you mentioned attending an emergency simulation a few pages back. Without divulging any confidences, and as vaguely as you wish to...
Exactly. Rerun of boring 90s sitcom, contractually obligated to air, outpulls the few thousand Oregon/ SE Texas fans who might switch over for...
"Who throws a [dumbbell]? Honestly! That really hurt." <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie"...
Veering off-topic, but fun: This Yahoo columnist/blogger seems to have the canonical stories on Oakley, "The All-Prison League Team," including...
Tinman, I just spent ten minutes looking back at the Chicago/Washington & Indiana/Washington gamelogs to prove an internet basketball point....
And he had 9 turnovers against Artest in his first game back against the Bulls. Bulls were pretty awful then as well. The one-on-one psychology...
Yep. Notice how carefully Smith phrases it: the "story goes," yet he gives no indications he believes it false. All press accounts at the time...
Fair enough. Would early 90s Jordan have been as deathly afraid of Artest as old Jordan? I think Jordan feared only Oakley during his prime...
Anybody get the name/spelling of the Queens legend Artest was talking about? I want to look him up now. I think the quote Artest mentions...
To be fair to the current Rockets' entry passers, if the entry pass wasn't spot on, Olajuwon was able to effortlessly jump up, or up and towards...
McHale in the post vs. Olajuwon in the post is a ballet of awesomeness.
Per Encarta, Per Wikipedia's numbers: Russian Flu (1889–90): <strike>1 million people</strike> Spanish Flu (1918–20): <strike>20 to 100...
"Every person who spits is helping the Kaiser!" [IMG] Others: [spoiler]
When he started the bit about Superman vs. the most terrifying killer in all the insect [sic] world, the first thing that popped in my head was...
Not if they match you drink-for-drink and smoke-for-smoke. The walk of shame is not a morning jog, good sir.
You're right; it's called a cytokine storm. It's what made the Spanish flu so deadly 90 years ago, and the reports of similar deaths in Mexico...
There does seem to be an emerging consensus, that this will percolate until reappearing (in some slightly mutated form) next flu season. That's...
