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Mexican President Felipe Calderón cancelled a trip to the northern state of Chihuahua and called his cabinet ministers, state health chiefs and even senior military commanders to an emergency meeting on Friday. The Mexico City government initially had about 400,000 doses of vaccine left after the influenza season, which normally lasts from December to March. However, these were being used exclusively for medical personnel across the nation's hospitals, where hundreds of people with flu symptoms were being treated. The Mexican federal government was also reported to be handing out a million flu vaccines to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Swine Flu Panic Spread Beyond Mexico? | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...term solution, yet it comes at a critical time, not just in American politics, but in the international effort for a climate accord. The international community is looking toward climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, where it aspires to a climate accord to go into effect in 2012. If cabinet-level appointments and rhetoric are any indication, the current administration at least has a clear conception of what the problem is (which can’t be said of its predecessor). The rest of the world is, once again, prepared to follow America’s lead. Even China, whose...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: Of Cows and Carbon | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Harman graduated from Smith College and Harvard Law School. After earning her J.D. in 1969, she became an associate in a Washington, D.C. law firm before transitioning into government as an aide to California Senator John Tunney. In 1977 she joined President Jimmy Carter's Administration as a deputy Cabinet secretary. The following year, she became special counsel to the Department of Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Rep. Jane Harman | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...face. A year later, Sarkozy snarled "get out of here, you poor a - hole" to a man who refused to let the president shake his hand during a book fair appearance. Just hours before the now notorious Wednesday lunch, Sarkozy delivered a monumental verbal lashing to a trio of cabinet members for publicly jockeying for advancement ahead of a shake-up. Astonishingly, that demonstration of presidential butt-kicking was then recounted by the government's spokesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy's Comments on Leaders Draw Shock, Denial | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

...Interior Marcos Farfan said the documents indicated that two members of the group were present when Morales handed out land titles to indigenous Guarani in Santa Cruz province last month - and that they'd supposedly abandoned a scheme to plant a bomb at a recent Morales recent cabinet meeting near Lake Titicaca. More ominously, said Garcia, "we also found documents that speak of future preliminary preparations for an assassination of the President and Vice President." (Check out a story about Bolivia's immense and strategic natural resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plot to Kill Bolivia's Leftist President? | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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