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...parents, in turn, can then infect others in the community. Knock these links out of the transmission chain, and the spread of the virus slows down considerably - an assertion backed up by studies from Japan, where vaccinations of young children against regular seasonal flu reduced infections and deaths among the most vulnerable elderly. "There's really a disproportionate amount of transmission going in schools," says Medlock. (See pictures of soccer in the time of swine...
...question this year attempted to measure colleges’ commitment to undergraduate teaching by having university officials name schools that they believed exhibited an outstanding commitment specifically to undergraduate education. Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County were ranked best in this metric among Harvard's peer institutions, but Harvard did not receive the seven necessary votes to be ranked at all, according to Morse...
...Among Orlando's tight-knit theatrical community (which includes Disney World as well as other theme parks like Universal Orlando, SeaWorld Orlando and a long list of medieval, western and Arabian Nights dinner shows), performers were inclined to view the deaths as freak accidents rather than negligence by Disney. "It would actually be unfair to say that Disney doesn't know what they're doing and they're lax," says Breslauer, a former Disney actor...
...questions of whether Al-Megrahi's conviction was legitimate. However, he also said he felt that "there remain concerns [around] some of the wider issues of the Lockerbie atrocity. There are questions to be asked and answered." Doubt in Al-Megrahi's guilt is relatively widespread in Britain, even among legal experts, close observers of the trial and the families of some of the victims. Robert Black, a professor emeritus of Scots Law at Edinburgh University and one of the legal architects of the Camp Zeist trial, tells TIME that he is relieved by Al-Megrahi's release. "Al-Megrahi...
...Scottish court rules that al-Megrahi is entitled to a second appeal, saying he "may have suffered a miscarriage of justice." Among the court's troubling findings: prosecutors failed to tell the defense that Gauci, the Maltese shopkeeper, had seen a picture of Megrahi in a magazine before picking him out of the line...