Opposing Digits

President Bush unveiled a $7.1 billion plan Tuesday to gird the nation against an outbreak of pandemic influenza, a potential catastrophe that many scientists fear could spring from the bird-killing strain currently spreading from Asia into Europe.

"Our country has been given fair warning of this danger to our homeland -- and it is time to prepare,'' Bush said in a speech before National Institutes of Health employees in Bethesda, Md.

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