12) According to paragraph 2, what is the MAIN purpose of GAINS (Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance)?
A)
to assist in the distribution of birds that have already
died from the Avian flu
B)
to work with other countries that are researching
how humans acquire the flu from birds
to improve the research which will better determine
which birds are wild and which birds are
domesticated
D)
to enhance the world's ability to collect and evaluate
samples of wild, migratory birds that may be carrying
the flu

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings.read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today.these excerpts are similar because both texts