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...look at young children, that's exactly where they start. But then by thinking about it, we develop a fairness ideal and a norm, where we say it's better in society if things are fairly distributed. Part of our response at the moment to Wall Street and the bonuses of the bankers is still that simple response: What are they getting, compared to what we are getting? So many people have nothing at the moment, and that enhances our sensitivity to it. But it's basically a monkey reaction...
...good news is that hospitalizations remain an exception for those getting the flu, and deaths of children have been relatively rare - with two or three pediatric deaths being reported each week, below the threshold of a full-blown epidemic. Over the past year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received reports of 117 influenza-related deaths of children, of which 25 occurred in children younger than age 2 and 35 occurred in children ages...
...should be ready by mid-October, with an additional 10 to 20 million doses added each week through the end of the year. The 2009 H1N1 vaccine will be free, with public distribution in most areas. Among those the government has prioritized for the voluntary vaccine: all school-age children, pregnant women, caretakers of young babies and people with chronic health conditions that could weaken their immune systems. In Spokane, Springer is carefully tracking the numbers to see how the illness behaves before local school children have a chance to be vaccinated and will continue...
British poet Simon Armitage has had a prolific writing career. Beginning with his first collection of poems in 1989 and spanning 13 volumes since, Armitage’s poetry has grown up with a whole generation of British children, taking its place in the high school English literature curriculum alongside Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. As well as teaching creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, Armitage embarks regularly on reading tours and on Tuesday, he held a poetry reading in the Woodberry Poetry Room in the Houghton Library.Armitage’s profile has been steadily...
Although 75 percent of American businesses offer paid sick leave for employees, a significantly smaller percentage of businesses provide employees paid leave to take care of sick family members or children when schools or daycares close, according to SteelFisher...