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...everyone, but doctors report that otherwise healthy tots under age 2 who get the bug are a whopping 12 to 25 times as likely as older kids to land in the hospital with complications like pneumonia. The finding may prod health officials to consider adding flu vaccine to the arsenal of inoculations young children already endure. In the meantime, parents can help protect their progeny--at least indirectly--by getting vaccinated...
...have kept it mired in its own mess." Given its population size, economic potential and strategic significance, India wants to be thought of as being in the same league as its eastern neighbor, China. India's rationale for developing nuclear weapons, for example, was based on China's nuclear arsenal rather than on any threat posed by Pakistan...
...United States alone spent $100 billion to remedy the Y2K problem, some of which was used to promote readiness in other parts of the world. The Pentagon's efforts to ensure safety in the Russian nuclear arsenal were especially welcome. The efforts of the government and the private sector resulted in massive overhauls and scrutiny of existing computer systems to guarantee that the year 2000 would not wreak havoc upon the world...
...insecurity that Russia feels in the Western-dominated post Cold War world. Russia is frightened, almost mortally terrified. On a recent trip to China, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin responded to President Clinton's criticism of the war in Chechnya by touting the power of Russia's nuclear arsenal. To Dartboard, it brought to mind our own experience as a scared teenager. When we felt threatened, we too ran off to find our six foot, 250-pound football-playing buddy to back...
...sense of flashback to the bad old days of the Cold War was underscored by President Boris Yeltsin's warning Thursday that President Clinton, in criticizing Russia's conduct in Chechnya, "must have forgotten for a moment what Russia is - it has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons." And in the ultimate d?j? vu, the Russian leader's remarks came during a visit to Beijing in order to drum up support in the face of Western pressure over Chechnya. Post-communist Russia's decline and NATO's bombing campaign over Kosovo earlier this year have cemented a fiercely anti-Western...