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...wondering whether the H1N1 flu epidemic has infiltrated your town yet, there's an iPhone app for that. Created by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, the new app, called Outbreaks Near Me, gives users real-time information about the type and scope of any new disease outbreaks in their area...
...epidemiologists had been able to pick up those early media reports about SARS, the disease might not have gone on to kill nearly 800 people. That's one of the reasons researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, developed HealthMap, a website that mines more than 30,000 data sources - including news media and government alerts - and puts them on a Google Map to show where outbreaks are occurring, in real time. Whether it's measles in Sussex, foot-and-mouth disease in Taiwan or avian flu in Indonesia, as reports...
With the health-care debate essentially on hiatus during Congress' final week of recess, Obama's back-to-school speech to America's children, scheduled to air at noon E.T. Tuesday, on C-Span and Whitehouse.gov., became a tempest in an empty news cycle - or at least the letter from the Department of Education announcing the speech did. The missive urged principals and teachers to have their students write letters to themselves about how they could assist the President, a request that some saw as an attempt to inject politics into the classroom. Jim Greer, Florida's GOP party chairman...
...short time, right-wing radio and television hosts and conservative bloggers piled on, with some calling on parents to keep their children home from class as a form of protest; school districts in Maine, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia said that they would not be showing the speech to students...
...imagine even the most dogged partisans finding much to object to in sentiments such as, "No matter what you want to do with your life - I guarantee that you'll need an education to do it." Much of the speech hews to Obama's campaign-trail exhortations to children to put down video games, turn off the television and pick up the schoolbooks. Obama will specifically ask kids to fulfill their responsibilities and give shout-outs to the founders of Facebook and Twitter as young people achieving great things. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...