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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...we’d lost, I’d be gutted,” Clark said. “This result doesn’t affect us too much—the league is still in our hands, and it shouldn’t hurt our rankings or our NCAA chances. After going down a goal, we’ll take this as a result...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: With Poor Play, No. 8 Harvard Settles For Draw | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

Researchers' best guess is that a flu infection causes stress in the mother, which might in turn affect fetal development. During pregnancy, a woman's heart and lungs are working substantially harder than usual, and her immune system is compromised, so a few infections (like influenza) may potentially become more intense. Although most pregnant women who get the flu survive with no serious problems, they are still more likely than other healthy adults to also develop respiratory failure and secondary bacterial infections like pneumonia - potentially fatal conditions that may require hospitalization and mechanical ventilation. "It is these severe cases that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Side Effects of 1918 Flu Seen Decades Later | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Your social networks, and in particular how popular you are, may also affect how good a candidate for a flu vaccine you are. Vaccinating an entire population may be less efficient than choosing people at random, asking them to name their friends, and then vaccinating those friends. The friends are likely to come into contact with many people, so vaccinating them might do the most good, the authors argue. "You can achieve the same level of protection for the population at one-third the cost doing an intervention like this," Fowler said, according to CNN. He and Christakis hope...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Choose Your Friends Wisely | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

Your social networks, and in particular how popular you are, may also affect how good a candidate for a flu vaccine you are. Vaccinating an entire population may be less efficient than choosing people at random, asking them to name their friends, and then vaccinating those friends. The friends are likely to come into contact with many people, so vaccinating them might do the most good, the authors argue. "You can achieve the same level of protection for the population at one-third the cost doing an intervention like this," Fowler said, according to CNN. He and Christakis hope...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Choose Your Friends Wisely | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...throughout the ordeal.) Just a month after the death of his friend Ted Kennedy, McCain took to the floor and railed against a $20 million earmark for a center for the study of the Senate in Kennedy's name at the University of Massachusetts. "I can't let my affection for Senator Kennedy affect my principles about earmarks on appropriation bills," he told TIME as he left the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John McCain: Can He Mend Fences with the Right? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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