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...SHOT One-dose, single-use packaging of this hepatitis B vaccine means no measuring and no dangerous needle reuse...
...that J.F.K. was more Hollywood than Harvard, a gifted politician who relied on his charm rather than deep understanding and conviction. He was often ''careless and dangerously disorganized.'' The image of vigor was also an illusion: hormone shots compensated for failing adrenal glands and amphetamines perked him up. Reeves' dose of reality is a needed antidote to the cloying hagiographies that have marked the 30th anniversary of J.F.K.'s death...
...some ways, the program--known as the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Plus Concept (PORECO)--looks like many such schemes around Africa. Besides educating mothers about the best way to breast-feed their kids, it gives newborn children a protective dose of nevirapine, an AIDS drug proved able to stop transmission of HIV through breast milk. The program, run in conjunction with the Swaziland Ministry of Health and funded by drug company Bristol-Myers Squibb, goes beyond the usual clinic visits. PORECO offers a large measure of community support and education, the kind of comprehensive care that Bhembe hopes...
...editors run slashdot.org full time, and he estimates that 300,000 to 500,000 people read the site daily. Six years ago, a philosophy professor in New Zealand named Denis Dutton started the blog Arts & Letters Daily artsandlettersdaily.com to create a website "where people could go daily for a dose of intellectual stimulation." Now the site draws more than 100,000 readers a month. Compare that with, say, the New York Review of Books, which has a circulation of 115,000. The tail is beginning to wag the blog...
...sitting outside Martinez's offices until he gave her an audience-but later decided that she didn't have time. She did, however, manage to squeeze in outings to the National Zoo and the International Spy Museum. Walters may have a stump speech, but there's still a healthy dose of kid in this activist...