Goodbye AltaVista. You deserved better than this. Better than the one-sentence send-off Yahoo gave you today, when announcing your July 8 closure date. But then again, you always were the bright child neglected by your parents.
To be sure, a lot of those hot spots are the rez too. The fact that Western counties have geographically more area (but fewer inhabitants, is slightly distorting as well -- but these data are perspicuously portrayed):
When the Black Death exploded in Arabia in the 14th century, killing an estimated third of the population, it spread across the Islamic world via infected religious pilgrims. Today, the Middle East is threatened with a new plague, one...
