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Earth
Four ways to feed the world
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Health
Common cold may hold off swine flu
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Earth
Salmon’s ecological finprint measured
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Health
Why fat angers the immune system
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Physics
Why three buses come at once, and how to avoid it
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Health
Timeline: The secret history of swine flu
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Swine flu: Eight myths that could endanger your life
Features
Swine flu myth: This is just mild flu. The death rates are even lower than for normal flu
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Swine flu myth: You’re safe as long as you’re healthy. Only sick, weak people get really ill
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Swine flu myth: The symptoms are like regular flu. You’ve got it if you’ve got a fever
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Swine flu myth: I’ll be OK if I just eat organic food, take vitamins, wear a mask, wash my hands a lot and drink plenty of fluids
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Swine flu myth: It’s OK now because we have a vaccine. In fact, we have several
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