Since its inception in 1961, the Peace Corps has lost at least 287 volunteers to disease, road accidents, crime, and other hazards in their host countries.

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The traffic accident survey was designed to establish whether the level of Bovine TB infection in dead badgers, collected from road accidents, reflected disease prevalence in the badger population in the area.

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After finally admitting that the true scale of its SARS outbreak had been deliberately hidden, and that in fact the disease was still spreading quickly, the Chinese authorities are now doing all in their power to contain the disease, from establishing road-blocks to stop people leaving Beijing, to the curtailment of the traditional week-long holiday that should have begun on May 1st.

ECONOMIST: Painful side-effects

"It's a very provocative observation to say that one's state of anxiety at a fixed point in time can in some way foretell an increased risk of cardiovascular disease 20 years down the road, " says Dr. Gregory Dehmer, M.

CNN: Study: Anxiety in youth linked to heart attacks later on

Ian Lipkin, a Columbia researcher who was an author on the Science paper, says his bee work could provide "a road map for addressing outbreaks of infectious disease" like SARS. Metagenomics could also open a window on the invisible microbes, still undiscovered, that live in the earth, air and sea.

FORBES: Can Genomics Save The Bees?

One, given this reality, your coronary disease as it now exists, does it appear to you unreasonable to look down the road and see yourself serving as vice president in a second Bush term is that occurs?

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