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Debating Infant Vaccines Though Joel Stein's column about vaccination was clever and in some ways humorous, children being injured every year by vaccinations is not [Sept. 28]. Conventional wisdom, which is what he reports believing in, is not always right. Fifty years of body casts instead of physical therapy for polio victims, thalidomide and its results and the recent speedy rollout of Gardasil - which has already been linked to an estimated 50 deaths - are a testament that the best medical evidence is not always correct. Lynda Lambert, BALTIMORE...
...audiences of all ages paid to see it, and the film played especially well (an A- CinemaScore rating) among those under age 25. Its road was paved by the success of another favorite children's book brought to the screen, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which on the previous four weekends had ranked in the top three spots and on Oct. 15 cracked $100 million at the North American box office. It's an open question whether the Jonze movie can show those steady legs, but for now, Wild Things is making Warner Bros.'s heart sing...
...dovetail seamlessly with the military operations this time around," says Durrani. "My fear is that it will not, and that everything we gain in the military operation will be lost if the government fails to provide the necessary [services]. I am holding my breath. The future of Pakistan's children and grandchildren depends on this...
...Lahore, a suicide car bomb exploded near a police station in the northwest's Kohat city, killing three police officers and eight civilians. And when the Lahore violence was over, another car bomb exploded in Peshawar, killing a six-year-old boy and wounded nine others, mainly women and children. Security is also being beefed up in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital and biggest city - and the only to have so far remained immune from terrorism...
...Indeed, Catalonia has long led the movement to do away with what is still referred to in Spain as the "national fiesta." In 2003, the region passed a sweeping animal-protection law that, among its many measures, restricted towns without bullrings from building them and prohibited all children under age 14 from attending a corrida by placing the equivalent of an R movie rating on the event. The following year, Barcelona's municipal government declared the Catalan capital an "anti-bullfighting city" in a nonbinding resolution; 70 other Catalan towns and cities have since followed suit. (Read "Spanish TV Says...