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...Director David S. Rosenthal ’59, UHS will charge students $154 per shot. The same shot costs $120 at Mass. General Hospital, according to the hospital’s website. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend vaccination of girls at 11 or 12 to ensure blanket protection before the children become sexually active but advise that women up to the age of 26 should still receive the vaccine whether sexually active or not. The vaccine will have no effect on women who have already come into contact with the virus. The vaccine is not currently licensed...
...night, that first brings the patients in. Overhead activities like putting up books or stacking dishes on a high shelf give the same hard-to-pinpoint shoulder and upper-arm pain. Cuff patients start avoiding movements that make them exert force at a distance from their bodies; fanning a blanket out over a bed, putting a child in a car seat, opening a window. There are, of course, some devoted athletes, who first complain, as Mr. Rumsfeld did, that the pain and weakness is affecting their squash or tennis game...
...More than a dozen of Fletcher's aides were indicted last year on charges that they helped orchestrate a hiring scheme for low-level state jobs based on political support. Fletcher was criticized from all sides when he issued a blanket pardon covering every member of his administration, save himself, for actions related to the indictments. But outright challenges to his leadership did not materialize until this summer, following his own indictment in May in connection with the case...
Under Boston’s plan, the city will build 2,250 “mesh access points” to blanket the 49-square-mile city with wireless Internet. Boston has access to 467 city buildings, 9,000 light poles, 824 signal lights, and 1,735 fire department call boxes on which to mount the points...
...been her most joyful and least trouble. He died in seconds, held violently underwater by the mother whose hands had carefully washed his hair so that the soap would not sting his eyes. She carried his soaked body to her bed, tucking him beneath a maroon blanket, his head on the pillows. After Paul, she drowned Luke, 2, and moved on to John, 5. Next she killed their baby sister Mary, whom she had distracted with a bottle so she wouldn't scoot away and hurt herself while her brothers were being killed...