Stuff below the fold

another day, another earthquake...north of here.

the 3.0 means vibrations like a truck, and I did hear/feel that yesterday, but thought it was a rice truck taking a shortcut up our street.

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Benedict XVI is a greenie, so the upcoming World Youth Day will be ecofriendly.

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That's Doctor FrankenSTEEN...

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WHO has been working for years to destroy the world's stockpiles of smallpox. but now there is a controversy if it should be done.

So why not destroy all of them? Recent studies suggest that variola and its experimental surrogate, vaccinia, have a remarkable ability to modify the human immune response through complex mechanisms that scientists are only just beginning to unravel. Further study that might require intact virus is essential. Moreover, modern science now has the capability to recreate smallpox or a smallpox-like organism in the laboratory in addition to the risk of nature re-creating it as it did once before. These factors strongly suggest that relegating smallpox to the autoclave of extinction would be ill