American Dialect Society to name Word of the Year - canada.comIn a year of recession, our strongest currency was language. And over the next few weeks, North America’s eminent lexicographers, grammarians and linguists will decide which word accrued the most social value of all. From aporkalypse to Dracula
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Durant’s 35 points power balanced Thunder to fourth straight win - NBA11:39 Butler Jump Shot: Missed Westbrook Rebound (Off:0 Def:1) 11:38 Westbrook Jump Shot: Missed Block: Arenas (1 BLK) 11:26 11:25 Foye Rebound (Off:0 Def:1) 11:15 Jamison Jump Shot: Missed Team Rebound 11:13 Krstic Jump Shot: Missed 10:58 10
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NEWS SCAN: - Centre For Infectious Disease Research and PolicyMonitoring for seasonal influenza H1N1 virus in Hong Kong for double resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and amantadine revealed a dramatic spike this spring in the number of detections, researchers described in a letter in the January issue of
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60,000 B.C. turkeys culled in avian flu outbreak - Windsor Star avian influenza as well,” Stephens said. Meanwhile, she said testing continues at a CFIA laboratory to confirm the pathogenicity, sub-type and strain of the virus. Those results should be known within days. Ray Nickel, president of the B.
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Death, destruction, disaster so much to tweet about - Jakarta PostLooking back on the first decade of the millennium, how would we sum up those 10 years flippantly known as the “noughties”? Overall, it is difficult to cast the decade in a positive light, overshadowed as it was by terrorism, war, disasters and
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Elderly not given fair access to swine flu shot, critics say - Tacoma News TribuneThroughout the peak of this fall’s swine flu pandemic, people older than 64 were unable to get vaccinated against the disease. Public health officials constantly reassured older adults that they had heightened resistance to the H1N1 virus and told
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Ed Thomas murder, same-sex marriage among our top stories of the year - Cedar Rapids GazetteA crowd watches as the funeral procession of Aplington-Parkersburg High School football coach Ed Thomas drives by. (Photo by Liz Martin/The Gazette) Two Iowa stories, both of which became national news, were the top news stories of 2009, based on [...]
Man gets 20 years for role in quadruple homicide - Milwaukee Journal SentinelRosario Fuentez, 25, confessed to police and later testified against two friends who fired the fatal shots in the 2008 attack. Each was convicted of four counts of first-degree intentional homicide, party to a crime. Antonio Williams, 26, was
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State had 120,000 doses of recalled swine flu vaccine - WREGNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Department of Health says 120,000 doses of a recalled swine flu vaccine were distributed in the state. The department said in a news release Wednesday that the doses represent 6.3 percent of the total doses
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Obamas get vaccinated against H1N1 flu - canada.comWASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he and his wife, Michelle, have been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus, urging other Americans to do the same. “People need to understand that this vaccine is safe,” Mr. Obama told
At least 111 million doses of [...]