Gwynne Dyer fears that bird flu will devastate on the scale of the 1918 flu pandemic; Arno Kopecky looks at the possibility of genetic doping in the Olympics; Pedro Sánchez and Gord Westmacott ponder the future of leftist South America; Alex Mazer examines the thoughts of Michael Ignatieff; Randy Boyagoda reviews a damning biography of Mao; fiction by Adam Gilders...