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...microbes battle back by mutating to become resistant to the drugs. It's a process that can't be reversed overnight, but there are ways to keep the bugs at bay. Schools and other fertile breeding grounds like health clubs should be kept clean. Adults and kids should stay alert to news of outbreaks. And everyone should take care to keep hands washed and cuts covered. Bacteria can't thrive where they aren't welcome...
...quite yet. According to Dr. Soheyla Gharib, Chief of Medicine at UHS, a grand total of 3 students were diagnosed as of the 13th. For the panic-stricken feeling ghost-itches everywhere, FM introduces the Scabies Watch, a weekly warning of exactly how worried you need to be. Current Alert Level: Blue Red (Severe): Feeling itchy? You probably have scabies right now. Burn all clothes and sheets immediately, including your roommate’s—he won’t mind, considering you’re saving him from infestation. Stop by UHS to pick up tubes of ointment...
...Britain has been on high alert. Party chiefs had already drawn up detailed campaign plans and taken on extra staff to carry these out. Donors were tapped for extra funds. Politicians pounded the streets peddling their policies as their constituents mulled over the options. All that remained was for Brown to summon an official limo to take the short drive from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace where he would ask the Queen to dissolve parliament. He was expected to do so on Oct. 9 to set up an election...
...These basic premises require that we eschew hubris for humility. Knowledge of our own contingency should alert us to the contingency of our own knowledge: From the impossibility of transcending the limitations of the circumstances to which we are confined, it follows that no one person can know the world’s workings completely. Each person’s perspective is shot through-and-through with their particularity; hence, while each of us has our own version of reality to contribute to a democratic milieu, no one else can be spoken for. In fact...
...which I am keen to make progress concerns the exchange of information between the U.S. and the E.U. when faulty or dangerous products are discovered,” she said in her speech. She advocated the adoption of a communications program based on the RAPEX system, a rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products in place in Europe. Karl Kaiser, one of the co-chairs of the Transatlantic Relation Seminar, a part of the Weatherhead Center, praised the ability of the E.U. to rapidly alert consumers. “In terms of alerting public and public institutions on matters...