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...Hernandez's story, and hundreds of others like her family's, indicate that the first-response apparatus of Mexico's public health system, if not the entire system, could stand a significant upgrade. Dr. Miguel Angel Lezana, director of the National Epidemiological Center, tried a bit of buck-passing this week, suggesting the response by the U.N.'s World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, "should have been more immediate" after Mexico informed WHO officials on April 16 of a possibly uncommon flu virus, one whose symptoms also include splitting headaches as well as the pneumonia-related problems. What Lezana seems...
...national associations, such as [the Association for American Universities] AAU and [the American Council on Education] ACE who have worked along with student organizations, in support of provisions in various versions of the DREAM Act of importance to higher education.” Talk about passing the buck: From what I can tell, the last action these organizations took for the DREAM Act was a letter they drafted in 2007. And they have done nothing to support the reintroduction of the DREAM Act this year...
...customers are paying 25-50% less than they would in the supermarkets. Crepeau has been running monthly grocery auctions for two years; over the past couple of months, attendance has doubled. "We have a lot of laid-off people around here," says Crepeau. "They need ways to save a buck...
...human capital, and that means promoting people's talents everywhere, not just the élite." It's gratifying, he adds, to watch his students' families, who are often as attuned to the value of the Sistema orchestras as any U.S. parent sending a child to Juilliard would be, buck the reputation of Venezuela's poor as uncultured niches, or uncouth people. "They're enchanted to see their children practicing this music at home, to see the self-esteem it gives them," he says. "They share it with their neighbors...
...Many females insist that the buck would stop for them after their first brush with any type of abuse. How do you handle the consistent parade of questions on why you stayed? It's nothing I can explain in a sentence. Instead of asking "Why did she stay," the far more troubling question is "Why on earth would a man abuse the person who loves him the most?" What amazes me is that almost every person whom I talk to asks me a question that turns my stomach: "how does your ex-husband feel about your writing this book...