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...responding to swine flu. Until July 2, some areas of the country had been taking a containment approach - testing all suspected cases, closing schools with confirmed cases and offering the antiviral drug Tamiflu as a prophylactic to those who'd come into close contact with suspected cases - while certain hot spots, like London and Glasgow, abandoned the containment strategy. "The truth of the matter is, either you should get it now or try to avoid getting it - you can't have it both ways. It's so easy to give a glib representation of ignorant parents who are acting hysterically...
...Lying on the floor, drifting in and out of consciousness, I would gaze up at her and feel strangely comforted, the way you do around a certain kind of bossy, sexless power mom. The show approximated family life exactly: it was mostly good-natured and often boring and centered on the most basic transactions of daily existence - getting everybody dressed and fed, cleaning up, keeping quarrels to a simmer, not a boil. Now and then - in moments that genuinely did seem unscripted - Kate would wilt, leaning against the kitchen counter with a cup of coffee and seeming, for the twinkling...
...University of California, Sokhoeun needs every penny of financial aid she can find. And that aid is almost certain to be cut in the coming round of budget slashing. The Cal Grant program is on the chopping block as Gov. Schwarzenegger proposes the elimination of grants for incoming freshman and the gradual phasing out of the program. Now Sokhoeun and thousands of outstanding students - the human capital for California's future economic growth - stand to see their dreams dashed...
...Nobody at this point is - or not many folks - are talking about taxing benefits or completely eliminating the exclusion," Obama said. But he noted that taxing benefits above a certain point - citing, as an example, $13,000 a year - would have some benefits in holding down costs overall. "If you get some Cadillac plan that costs $17,000, then what we're going to do [under this scenario] is you're going to have to pay taxes on that last $4,000," Obama said. "And the idea that is being debated in Congress right now is, Is that a good...
...England Mount the Green Wave?" the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) analyzed London's interference in Iran's elections based on "expert psychological opinion." The article, published on July 1, says British tactics included "mass distraction" and "hypodermic needle," both intended to subconsciously infuse Iranians with certain messages and goals. The British media pursued three phases, it said, the last of which saw 55 British reporters in Iran taking on the role of "spokesmen for the current of dissent and then the riots." (Read: "Has Britain Replaced the U.S. as Iran's 'Little Satan...