Rolling the Dice on Bird Flu

Everyone has so much going on at the turn of the year — family trips punctuated by someone getting a funny cough, New Year’s regrets and resolutions, the agonizing stretch between January 6 and Inauguration Day through which to remain medicated. Many of us put up buffers to make it. But into your carefully guarded cone of quiet may come a news item with a whiff of terror. The eggs...