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...with some schools opening this month, a few decisions must be made. If the virus does not mutate into something more deadly, federal officials will urge local schools to stay open unless so many children or staffers are sick that teaching becomes difficult. This is a change from the spring, when some school districts simply shut down for a week or more as students began getting symptoms. U.S. officials now believe wholesale shutdowns are unnecessary, 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...
...they have for most of the past 87 years, hundreds of children from across the Eastern seaboard arrived in June at Camp Modin in Belgrade, Maine, carrying flip-flops, sleeping bags and swimsuits. But they also carried something new. First there was one fever, then six, then nine campers in a single day. By the end of the first full week, dozens of kids were sleeping on state-issued cots in a specially quarantined cabin, waiting out a pandemic flu virus that is barnstorming its way across the globe. Camp Modin was not alone; so far this summer, at least...
...good news is that H1N1 is not, so far, a particularly severe disease for those who are healthy. Through July, 353 Americans were confirmed to have died from the new flu out of an estimated 1 million infected. With the exception of certain populations - including pregnant women, children with chronic diseases and people with respiratory ailments - H1N1 tends to be no worse than the seasonal flu. A few days in bed and lots of liquids, and most patients get better. The bad news is that H1N1 is highly contagious and, unlike many other flus, is particularly hard on children...
...million men. In Seoul, many women work infamously long hours, with employers offering few systems to help working mothers keep a manageable balance between their jobs and families. "Because of the very high price of child-rearing in Korea, it may prove more economical to stay behind helping children to do better in the school," says Professor Chang Pil Wha of Seoul's Ewha Womans University. Finding a job after maternity leave can also be an uphill battle...
...nice idea, but the plan may end up reasserting South Korean women's secondary status more than boosting it. Led by Mayor Oh Se Hoon, the $104 million program launched in 2007 under the slogan "Happy Women, Happy Seoul," with a focus on mothers of young children and the unemployed. Assistant mayor of women and family policy affairs Cho Eun Hee says the program will be, among other things, helping to find work for jobless women, paving streets to make them high-heel friendly, building more women's public restrooms, improving lighting in public spaces, creating safe parks for women...