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...offered a trial by the London club Arsenal, and he proves on film that he hasn't lost his touch. He comes from Port Talbot, the same South Wales steel town that produced Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. Sheen says he spends three months studying characters, "looking at every bit of footage I can find and every book about them that's been written" and ferreting out their weak spots. In Clough's case, he didn't have to look hard. For all his braggadocio, Clough wore his vulnerability on his sleeve. (See pictures of the great British thespians...
...just tickled a bit, said the first recipients of the 2009 H1N1 flu-vaccine nasal spray, which rolled off production lines into cities including New York and Chicago this week, just in time for the official start of the influenza season on Oct. 4. Not everyone who wanted the vaccine got it, though. Only 2.4 million of the government's total order of 251 million doses were released. That isn't nearly enough to satisfy even the early adopters--especially since states like New York have mandated flu vaccinations for all health-care workers. But federal health officials decided...
...only those receiving the seasonal-flu vaccine will get a colored clip - this year it's yellow - and the system seems to be motivating employees to get their shots. "It introduces a bit of peer-pressure incentive to get vaccinated," says Dr. Aaron Milstone, a member of the hospital's infection-control committee. Still, in case the H1N1 situation worsens and not every health-care worker chooses to get immunized, Hopkins officials are considering additional measures, like making all those directly caring for patients wear a mask...
...back line is doing great, [and] we didn’t want to mix that up at all,” Nichols said. “They’re playing really well, so I just stepped into the midfield for a bit today...
...thing is, to constitute a regatta, you have to have three races in each division,” junior skipper Colin Santangelo said. “The difficult part of the regatta just really was that there was so little wind, so every time there was the smallest bit of wind where we could sail...