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Thousands of people across the country did likewise last week, as county health clinics began distributing their first shipments of the coveted vaccine for free to at-risk groups. However, because of production delays, supplies of the vaccine have been far lower than requested, forcing some counties to severely curtail their original plans. (See how to prevent illness...
...been hailed for its success in bringing at-risk youth up to and beyond grade level in reading and math, and President Barack Obama has pledged to establish twenty “Promise Neighborhoods” modeled on Canada’s work...
...says Randy Sary, 28, who works at Tiny Toones. "After we get kids in, we have other programs like English and Khmer. You can't just be athletic. You have to be educated." K.K. plans to grow Tiny Toones even more, hoping to open a school for at-risk children by 2011. "A real, decent school that doesn't charge. One with a cafeteria that serves breakfast and lunch, like when I was kid," he said. (Read about the Cambodian-American band Dengue Fever...
That could mean that the at-risk people were working harder to recognize the well-known celebrities, compensating for already damaged or destroyed neurons that were no longer functioning, while the control group had to struggle only when trying to place the names of noncelebrities, recruiting more nerve cells and connections, racking their memory banks and recall centers. Significantly, in neither group did pictures of the brain designed to pick up structural changes associated with dementia, like signs of atrophy and dead neurons, show any differences - at least not yet. (Read "Can Language Skills Ward Off Alzheimer's? A Nuns...
...Miami Gardens officials acknowledge that they don't know what percentage of their at-risk homeowners have gotten loan modifications. (Williams' ordinance would also require the banks to provide that data.) But the spike in foreclosure signs tells them it's too few. And given the city's grinding 15% unemployment rate, many believe they have no choice but to try to leverage banks into taking MHA more seriously...