Heads and tales: Good for what kills ya
By Wade Kwon
Giving flu the bird: A city pharmaceutical company is asking permission to test its new flu drug which has shown potential for treating strains — including the deadly dreaded bird flu. It could be ready to go later in 2006, but the company’s first try showed little more effective than placebos. Good news for those with health insurance. But the uninsured poor needn’t worry: They’ll receive their shots of flu randomly and for free.
• BioCryst seeks OK on flu drug for people [Birmingham News]
Riding the bus with my sistas: Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ most comfortable bus ride — or least comfortable, depending on how you view it. But she wasn’t alone in the fight, and the occasion will focus on others who also participated in Montgomery’s civil rights struggle.
• In wake of Parks’ death, 50th anniversary of boycott shifts focus [Associated Press]
Try the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy, too: A Troy University associate professor of political science makes his case for a new state constitution. Very needed, very unlikely. Now if he had only wished for longer bulkier constitution than the one we already have …
• Listing holiday wishes for changes in Alabama’s goverment [Mobile Register]
Also:
- Adamsville family grudgingly draws for Secret Santa exchange
- Actors prepare for last '05 show through rehearsal, chain smoking
- Condi Rice named most fascinating bureaucratic lackey
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