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When, where, and why do diseases jump from animals to people? A new project will monitor how changing seasons, land use, and human behavior influence viral outbreaks in wild rodent populations, to identify hotspots with high potential for spillover into people.
By the end, Hubert Humphrey was a bit pathetic. In 1968, as the vice president and the Democratic nominee for president, he looked like Lyndon B. Johnson's puppet, bullied into supporting the failing policy of the Vietnam War. He was corny, blubbery with tears and goofy with grins, blithely proclaiming a "politics of joy" in a time of protests and riots and assassinations.
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