7 February 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 07 Feb 2007 Bird flu in the news again: Sick vet who handled turkey culling in Britain tests negative for the virus; the American plan: drive-thru groceries and riding shotgun. Bruce Murphy on the dismal state of our bird flu plan--we've put all our money on Tamiflu, and now it doesn't work. Today's long read: Zimbabwe's economy sinks under inflation, Mugabe's paranoia. Tex. Gov. Perry proposes selling the state lottery and buying health insurance for those without it, funding cancer research. The fallout from Idiocracy: Mike Judge loses his third movie deal. A new poll shows Americans' love affair with neoclassical architecture is far from over. Researchers studying the DNA of Thomas Jefferson's descendants find family origins in the Middle East. A deep, concentrated flavor, a hint of sweetness, but not overly rich. On the delicacy of unlaid eggs, discovered when hens are slaughtered. London lays claim as the new land of cocktails. If a wine tastes like chocolate, does that mean that chocolate tastes like a wine? And: When wines go "mousy," there's no going back. "You can't market yourself as bucolic." Rural colleges find a shortage of country mice.
