US invests $1.3bn in vaccines for deadly virus

US invests $1.3bn in vaccines for deadly virus
Advertiser Adelaide - 6 hours agoTHE US has stepped up its defences against a deadly bird flu pandemic by awarding $1.3 billion worth of contracts to five drug companies to develop a vaccine. The five-year contracts were given to Britain's ...

Study Explores Anatomy of Dread
Forbes - May 4, 2006THURSDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) -- An experiment funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse finds that feeling dread about an approaching event is a question of how much attention you pay to that event. ...

De La Hoya-Mayorga Fight Predictions
The Sweet Science - 7 hours agoAfter a long hiatus, Oscar De La Hoya returns to active duty Saturday night against Ricardo Mayorga at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for El Matador s super welterweight title, in a bout televised on HBO PPV. ...

Most school soda sales to end
San Jose Mercury News - May 4, 2006By Karen Matthews. NEW YORK - Children across the country will soon have to wait until school's out to pop the top on sugary soft drinks blamed for much of the rise in childhood obesity. Non-diet sodas will ...

Kremlin hits out at Cheney speech
BBC News - 4 hours agoBy Jonathan Marcus. The Kremlin has described US Vice President Dick Cheney's tough condemnation of Russia on Thursday as "completely incomprehensible". Mr Cheney made his comments in a speech in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. ...

Darfur rebel group agrees to make peace with Sudanese government
San Jose Mercury News - 45 minutes agoBy Shashank Bengali. NAIROBI, Kenya - Darfur's leading rebel group bowed to pressure from high-powered Western and African diplomats on Friday and accepted a peace agreement with the government of Sudan to end a bloody three-year war. ...

Veto Hallelujah
Wall Street Journal - 14 hours agoAll bad things must come to an end, and it may just be that President Bush's record for not casting vetoes will soon be history. So much the better that he is promising to break his dubious record by nixing ...

Nets say goodbye to Johnson, but Wade's coming next
San Jose Mercury News - 13 hours agoBY MITCH LAWRENCE. INDIANAPOLIS - Having survived Anthony Johnson - which have to be the strangest four words to ever begin a column about the NBA playoffs - the Nets now get to put their shaky perimeter defense up against Dwyane Wade. ...

Stakes high in battle between Rumsfeld, generals
GovExec.com - 1 hour agoThe matter of Rumsfeld v. the Generals bears close scrutiny. The controversy represents the worst breach in civil-military relations since Harry Truman dismissed Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1951 for his conduct ...