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...given the fact that the bug is already so widespread, and potentially too disruptive. When schools close, many parents have to stay home from work, disabling an already fragile economy. Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, recommends that all families begin planning contingencies for handling a child who has to spend a week or more home from school. (Some schools may be advised to create quarantine areas for sick children whose parents cannot keep them at home...
...everyone will be recommended for the H1N1 vaccine. The target group includes pregnant women, caretakers of infants, adults with chronic illnesses like diabetes and asthma and every child, teen and young adult between the ages of 6 months and 24 years. H1N1 is particularly tough on these populations. Pregnant women, for example, are more than four times as likely as others to be admitted to the hospital for the flu. Because the serum, which is still being developed, won't be ready until at least mid-October, full immunity may not kick in until early December - after the second doses...
...Back to Normal in the Northeast Meanwhile, things have calmed down at Camp Modin. No child was hospitalized, even though about 1 in 5 of the campers and staffers came down with the illness. Quarantined campers were carefully screened for any rise in body temperature, and Tamiflu was broadly administered, despite federal recommendations. The pandemic was integrated into normal camp life, just another reality like bug bites and sunburn. "The kids made light of it. It was just the flu," says Howie Salzberg, the camp's director. To help pass the time, quarantined kids were given access to television, DVDs...
...Tenenbaum's legal team had initially planned to argue that Tenenbaum's actions constituted "fair use" of the copyrighted material, but Gertner rejected the argument early Monday morning before the trial started. The defense then attempted to portray Tenenbaum as a "young child" exploring the boundaries of a digital world, while framing the recording industry's recent struggles as a "coming of age story" that parallels technological advances...
...doing many things for women, but we do not see any noticeable changes," she says. "They are wasting citizens' money out of the tax that they pay. We don't want pink parking spots." What South Korean women do want, says Cho, is to see more choices for child care so that they don't lose jobs to men when they have families. And a few more female taxi drivers wouldn't hurt either...