Bird Flu Vaccine Approved

American Voices

June 11, 2007 | ISSUE 43•24

The first vaccine for avian flu was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration. What do you think?

Just as the HPV vaccine only encourages sexual intercourse, this vaccine will foster and normalize interaction with birds.

Brad Emery
Systems Analyst
Thank God, because I've just been tearing through the beef jerky and bottled water in my personal pandemic stockpile

Debbie Hirsch
Embroiderer
I thought bird flu was last year. Did that never happen? I am pretty sure it already happened.

John Weiss
Window Washer

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

05.25.12 |

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.