"just one case would constitute a global emergency..."

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Check out July 12, 1999 The New Yorker magazine. Two article of some interest for those of a forward-looking mindset:

1. The Pox "It can rot the skin and organs before bringing on an excruciating death. Just one case would constitue a global emergency. The smallpox virus is supposed to be contained, but the Russians secretly produced enough to infect millions. And we're almost out of vaccine. Smallpox killed three hundred million people this century, when most people were immune to the disease. Today, they no longer are. The return of the deadliest disease in history and why we're now powerless to stop it."

2. How to Predict Everything Can the physicist who was right abou the Berlin wall and Broadway rea the future too ? ... "I'm batting a thousand..." The question that Gott has been asking lately is how long the human species is going to last.

-- Count Vronsky (vronsky@anna.com), July 07, 1999


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