Even so, says the WHO, it would take at least four months to create and start mass-producing a vaccine against a new, human-to-human version.
Arguably, the least disruptive approach -- which would not impede the free flow of capital into and out of the United States and minimize the need for government intervention -- would be the voluntary adoption of new security- and human rights-minded "due diligence" by U.S. investment banks and fund managers, including those in California.
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Besides winning Indonesia a seat on the United Nations' new human-rights body, Mr Yudhoyono's main foreign-policy achievement so far has been improved relations with the United States.
It will be 20 years or so before analysts can use these new human-capital indicators to track the long-term effect on growth of having people with more or fewer skills entering work.
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One argument against the idea that a new human-dominated epoch has recently begun is that humans have been changing the planet for a long time already, indeed practically since the start of the Holocene.
New York (CNN) -- Dennis deLeon, former New York City human rights commissioner and long-time AIDS activist, has died, according to the organization he helped launch.
The trend will lead to far-out new technologies, such as human-level artificial intelligence, becoming a reality within our lifetimes.
In other domestic news, the World Health Organization is watching out for mutations and possible human-to-human transmission of the new H7N9 bird flu strain after two family cluster cases - a father-and-son cluster and a husband-and-wife cluster - were detected in Shanghai, China Daily reports.
"The breakthrough UI defines a new language for human-device interaction that is built ground-up for eye-free operation, " said Boaz Zilberman, chief executive officer of Project RAY.
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It was these prizes that inspired the biggest turning point in muscle-powered flight's history, and where the work of Dr. Paul MacCready and his various teams would start a new chapter in human-powered flight.
The Joint Legislative Audit Committee hearing suggests that the State of California and its public employee retirement funds may play a critical role in fashioning a template for a truly national effort to introduce new national security- and human rights-minded "due diligence" into debt and equity purchasing decisions.
Health authorities are testing a family infected by H7N9 in Shanghai for human-to-human transmission of the new bird flu strain, The Beijing News reports.
Amid growing public concern over the outbreak, health authorities have promised transparency and stressed that there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the new strain of deadly bird flu, China Daily reports.
Since neither of the two children, a 10-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl, had contact with pigs, it "increases the possibility that human-to-human transmission of this new influenza virus has occurred, " according to a CDC report.
Just as human-computer interaction was once a burgeoning new field and now is a given in system design, human-future interaction is poised to become more essential to our strategic planning and innovation processes.
These findings suggest investigators not only can uncover new details from centuries-old human remains, but can also help identify crime victims, scientists added.
But forget new uses for lab-grown human skin.
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Both Pfizer and Medarex (nasdaq: MEDX - news - people ), a biotech firm in Princeton, New Jersey, subsequently produced human antibodies to CTLA-4 and began testing them in patients a few years later.
Fifty-seven new compounds are in human testing, triple the size of its disclosed pipeline in 2002.
Then, as the new virus replicates it mutates further and, if luck is on its side, some of these mutations allow it to spread from human to human - a new influenza pandemic is born.
Thomsen says new data from recently completed two-year human studies of liraglutide show no hints of thyroid problems in roughly 1, 500 patients.
This time, they used exotic materials to lower its weight, which included the then-new technique of creating carbon fiber tubes, and Kevlar -- a first for a Human Powered Aircraft (HPA).
Her ideas about creating healthy teams are both new and well-grounded in real insights into human behavior.
The story of Harold and Erica does not really illustrate a new, coherent, science-based theory of human nature.
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Globalization, rapid economic growth and socio-cultural changes have engendered new challenges for human resources development in the Caribbean.
They are powerful clues about how age-old human mores have acquired new hues.
Among those supporting Ms. Quinn's candidacy are New York gay-rights groups such as the Human Rights Campaign and the Empire State Pride Agenda.
The WHO expressed concern about what it called "exposure worldwide" to mad cow disease and its fatal human form, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).
But the median tenure of CEOs worldwide was less than two years and nine months, according to Drake Bearn Morin, a global human-resources consultancy in New York.
Taking aim at arthritis, AIDS, cancer and hepatitis, Boger now has seven new drugs in second- or third-stage human trials (three stages are required to win approval).
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