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...really happening: R. Kelly, R&B's self-professed Pied Piper, is having his day(s) in court, facing charges that he videotaped himself having sex with an underage female. Now that it's on, the trial itself has already proven to be as much of a cliffhanger as the six years that lead...
...handful of other children against smallpox in 1796 by exposing them to cowpox pus, things have been tougher on humans' most unwelcome intruders. In the past century, vaccines against diphtheria, polio, pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella, not to mention the more recent additions of hepatitis B and chicken pox, have wired humans with powerful immune sentries to ward off uninvited invasions. And thanks to state laws requiring vaccinations for youngsters enrolling in kindergarten, the U.S. currently enjoys the highest immunization rate ever; 77% of children embarking on the first day of school are completely up to date on their recommended...
...receiving the recommended complement of childhood vaccinations was exposed to total levels of vaccine-based mercury twice as high as the amount the epa considers safe in a diet that includes fish. By the end of that year, thimerosal-free formulations of the five inoculations that included it-hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis and some versions of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)-had replaced the older versions. The result was a drop in mercury exposure in fully immunized 6-month-old babies from 187.5 micrograms to just trace amounts still found in some flu vaccines. Yet there's been...
...member group's new members will be former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, former History department chair Andrew D. Gordon, zoologist Farish A. Jenkins, former Earth and Planetary Science department chair Michael B. McElroy, and former Classics department chair Richard J. Tarrant—throwing the gender balance from eight women and 10 men to six women...
...everyone is sold, of course. "That paramilitary-style policing has proven not just ineffective, but also has led to greater instances of brutality," contends Craig B. Futterman, a University of Chicago law professor who co-wrote the analysis of the CPD's handling of misconduct allegations. With the CPD's largely white officers saturating black and Latino neighborhoods, Futterman warns, "it's going to be like an outsider-occupied territory...