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...promise for preventing some types of diarrhea. The most common cause of diarrhea in children is rotavirus, which leads to severe, watery diarrhea. Researchers believe it infects almost every child in the world by age 5 and kills 600,000 of them a year in poor countries. (Children who contract the virus in rich countries, by contrast, usually recover quickly because they are treated aggressively.) The first vaccine approved for prevention of rotavirus, Wyeth's Rotashield, was taken off the market in 1999 after several children who received it developed a rare but serious complication in which the bowel folds...
Party leaders concede the point that their revolution hasn't lived up to everything they promised. But they say voters still see the difference between where the parties stand. Former Republican chairman Ed Gillespie--one of the authors of the Contract with America, on which House Republicans ran in 1994--says, "Our party is still better when it comes to spending than the Democrats, stronger on national security than the Democrats and more likely to share concerns about the coarsening of our culture that a majority of Americans share than the Democrats are." Strategists are putting an optimistic face even...
...Frank Luntz was the pollster of record for the Contract With America in 1994. He is the author of the forthcoming book Words That Work...
...buildings are not dangerous, and our cleaning companies pay wages that are comparable to the union’s suburban contract,” he said. “SEIU is attempting to force us to hire union contractors by means of false and misleading allegations that they cannot substantiate...
...believe that we are in the actual decision-making mode. We are still in the information-gathering mode.”Casey also said the University had certain concerns as to just how helpful the new program would be. The DSP requires that foreign factories under contract with licensed producers devote at least 50 percent of their yearly output to the “collegiate market” or “to other buyers willing to meet the same standards and pricing obligations as university licensees,” according to organization documents. This concentration of production, according...