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...that's not a subject I would normally deem column worthy, but in this case the irony is too rich to ignore. For even as it celebrates the benefits of childhood vaccination, the U.S. is running out of the very vaccines needed to do the job. The biggest shortfalls: chicken-pox vaccine, various tetanus vaccines and the so-called pneumococcal conjugate vaccine...
...verge of a chicken-pox epidemic, but the longer the shortages persist, the greater the risk. "All you need is one case to get you into trouble," says Dr. James McCord of the Children's Hospitals and Clinics in St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minn. McCord and other pediatricians expect they'll be able to start catching up when more vaccine becomes available later this summer. But that means keeping track of lots of kids who have fallen behind in their immunization schedules. For many parents it also means taking yet another day off from work to make sure their children get their...
...month's meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas, the anti-HDTV forces worried aloud about piracy of satellite-transmitted high-def movies and even questioned whether the technology would ever work. Cuban, whose technology works just fine, retorts that movie studios are running around like Chicken Little and should be more worried about capturing a market that Cahners In-Stat expects to hit 7 million to 8 million homes by 2004. The tiny audience he has today doesn't faze Cuban. "It's like saying how many people used the Internet in 1995; it's irrelevant...
Quorn, the most popular meat substitute in Europe, is little known in the U.S., but its manufacturer, Britain's Marlow Foods, wants to change that. Often formed into patties, Quorn is a low-fat alternative to chicken nuggets and beef burgers. But Marlow faces a marketing challenge in describing Quorn--a mycoprotein, or fungus that has been fermented. This fungus is in the same family as mushrooms though it sounds like a cousin to the stuff that causes athlete's foot. But last month the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington group sometimes dubbed the Food Police...
...Crimson, The Harvard Environmental Reporter, The Indy (my first campus piece was for them. *shudder*). Here I had theater—from acting and tech to putting on two of my own plays to a mercifully short-lived sketch comedy troupe sophomore year called Tastes Like Chicken. As I became more politically aware I joined various liberal causes—from the Cambridge Youth Peace and Justice Corps (much maligned by one of my roommates) to Take Back the Night and a brief stint in the living wage campaign. And unlike in high school, where I did roughly 800 percent...