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...against other childhood ills. It does no one any good if the new inoculation wrecks the protections offered by existing ones. For that reason, a second study followed 394 Tanzanian infants who were administered a slightly different formulation of the GSK vaccine at 8, 12 and 16 weeks of age, along with routine inoculations against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and influenza B. The vaccine not only did not get in the way of those vaccines but also successfully slashed malaria infections by 55% over six months...
...Waite-Petri campaign is adopting an age-old tradition of using their platform to advocate for the abolition of the Council. There is one caveat, however. “We’re going to invite a member of the House of Hapsburg to rule the student body indefinitely instead,” Waite says...
...foreign society. Demographics in a university or college tend not to reflect the demographics of a society at large. This is more significant in poorer countries where the university population tends to include more and more of the upper classes. However, all universities are unnaturally homogenous with respect to age. In the workplace, your boss, your receptionist, and your colleagues would all be at different stages of their lives and would provide very different perspectives on culture...
Your editorial (“Legislating Under the Influence,” editorial, Nov. 20) supports the conclusions of the Amethyst Initiative and calls for lowering the legal minimum drinking age from 21 to 18. The editors have not done a thorough job of examining the large body of available scientific evidence on the protective effects of the 21-age law. Of all alcohol control policies, the 21-year minimum drinking age is the most frequently studied, and the one deemed most effective. According to the Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board “ State Age-21 laws...
...legal drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18 in many states in the 1970s and then raised again nationally through the 1984 Minimum Purchase Age Act-two significant policy shifts that have enabled scientists to contrast effects on alcohol-related deaths. During the ensuing years, dozens of studies have been conducted by epidemiologists, economists, and public health and traffic safety experts. Almost all have found that the Age-21 law saves lives—an estimated 900 nationally each year...