Only the fragile chicken egg stands between Americans and a flu pandemic that would claim tens of thousands more lives than are usually lost to the flu each year. Vaccine production hinges on the availability of hundreds of millions of eggs and even with the vaccine, flu still claims somewhere around 36,000 lives in the United States during a typical year. Now scientists have taken an important step toward ending the dominance of the oval.Who doesn't want a new coop grocery store? Julie Siple at MPR says such people exist, in south Minneapolis no less: "In south Minneapolis just east of Interstate 35W, the Bryant neighborhood is designated a food desert a lowincome community without a large grocery store within one mile. The Seward Coop in Minneapolis has announced plans to open a second store in the Bryant neighborhood and has signed a purchase agreement with a church for its property. The coop still needs financing and city permission to use the site.

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